Information Displays
Informationsdarstellungsgeräte
Vorlesung im Sommersemester 2006
Jun. Prof. Dr. Ing. Oliver Bimber
Bauhaus University, Media faculty, Dept. Augmented Reality
(lokale Ansprechpartnerin für Fragen:
Gudrun Klinker)
This class will be held in SS06 at the Bauhaus-University in Weimar (2+1 SWS, for MS and diploma students)
and at Technical University Munich (2 SWS, mor MS, BS and diploma students).
Content
Since its invention in the late twenties, television has radically shaped the 20th century. Today, we
view most of our visual entertainment and professional day-to-day operations on new and innovative
displays. Bulky cathode-ray tubes, for instance, mostly disappeared from our desks. They have been
widely replaced by flat panels. The form-factor of home-entertainment displays, as another example, is
evolving from small cubes to large planes. The maximal size of flat-panel technology is constrained by
technological and applicability issues. If their limits are reached, video projectors have a great potential
to continue this trend. Furthermore, small displays are continuously carried around by most of us – as
part of mobile phones, personal digital assistants, navigation systems, or laptops.
What will come next? What will TVs be like in another 80 years from now? Will pixels die out and turn
into voxels or hogels? Will interactive 3D experiences rule out passive 2D ones? These and other
questions are of particular interest - especially when considering that it is likely that most of us will yet
witness this evolution.
This class gives technical insights into present and future trends of display technology. It focuses in
particular on real-time rendering aspects that enable the visualization of graphical 2D and 3D content
with such displays, and addresses specifically the field of augmented reality. Details are presented in
the module overview below.
Further information can be found at:
www.uni-weimar.de/medien/AR.
Das Fernsehen hat das zwanzigste Jahrhundert radikal mit gestaltet. Fernsehgeräte
befinden sich nunmehr in fast jedem Haushalt. Eine interessante Frage, die sich stellt
ist: Was bietet uns die Zukunft?
Diese Veranstaltung gibt Einblicke in aktuelle und zukünftige Trends der
Displaytechnology. Zunächst werden ausgewählte Themen der geometrischen- und
Wellenoptik, und Radiometrie behandelt, die dann über die grundlegenden
Displayverfahren hinweg zu den Informationsdisplays von morgen führen. Im
Vordergrund dieser technologieorientierten Veranstaltung steht die Kombination von
Echtzeit Computer Grafik und Optik.
Unter anderem werden folgende Technologien behandelt: 3DTV, projektionsbasierende
Verfahren und Projektoren der nächsten Generation, stereoskopische
und autostereoskopische Techniken, computergenerierte- und digitale Holografie,
volumetrische, multi-fokale und High-Dynamic-Range Displays, elektronisches
Papier, organische und Polymer-Displays, Solid-State Displays, und hardwarebeschleunigte
Renderingverfahren, die eine interaktive grafische Darstellung auf
solchen Displays durch aktuelle Shadertechnologie ermöglichen.
Weitere Informationen unter
www.uni-weimar.de/medien/AR.
(
pdf).
Time & Location
Starting date: Thursday, Apr. 27.
The class will be taught in 4 blocks (thursdays and fridays)
- Apr. 27., 28.
- June 1., 2.
- June 29., 30.
- July 27., 28.
2 classes on thursdays: 13:30 - 15:00, 15:30 - 17:00 in Room 02.09.014
1 class on fridays: 10:30 - 12:00 in Room 03.013.010
More Information
Intended audience:
- Diploma students: Hauptstudium Informatik I (Praktische Informatik)
- Senior bachelor students with interest in pursuing a bachelor's thesis in this area
- Master students
Prerequisites:
Schein:
The class will be conducted in English
Schedule (subject to change)
Note: access to slides and additional readings only from sub-nets: 131.159. and 129.187.
How to invert your slides for printing? Read this.
Literature
The lecture will be based on the following books (papers will be provided onlne):
- Spatial Augmented Reality by: Oliver Bimber and Ramesh Raskar. A K Peters LTD, 2005. ISBN 1-56881-230-2.
- Projection Displays by: Edward Stupp and Matthew Brennesholtz. Wiley, 1998. ISBN: 0-471-98253-9.
- Light Science by: Thomas Rossing and Christopher Chiaverina. Springer, 1999. ISBN: 0-387-98827-0.
- Optik – Grundlagen und Anwendungen by: D. Kühlke. Verlag Harri Deutsch, 2004. ISBN: 3-8171-1741-8.
- Practical Holography by: Graham Saxby. IOP Publishing, 2004. ISBN: 0-7503-0912-1.
- Three-Dimensional Displays by: Stephen Benton. SPIE Milestones Series, Vol. MS162, 2001. ISBN 0-8194-3893-0.
- Fundamental Techniques in Holography by: Hans Bjelkhagen and John Caulfield. SPIE Milestones Series, Vol. MS171, 2001. ISBN 0-8194-4334-4.
- High-Dynamic Range Imaging by: Erik Reinhard, Greg Ward, Sumanta Pattanaik, and Paul Debevec. Morgan Kaufman, 2005. ISBN 0-12-585263-0.