Hauptseminar/Master Seminar: Computer Graphics for Augmented Reality

Prof. Nassir Navab, Dr. Ulrich Eck, Felix Bork, Jakob Weiss

Type: Master Seminar Module IN2107
SWS: 2+0
ECTS: 5 Credits
Location: CAMP Seminar Room, 03.13.010
Time: 12:00 - 14:00 (except for the introductory meeting!)
Course Language: English

Announcements

• 31-01-2017: The introductory meeting will take place on the 03.02.2017, 15:30, at Narvis lab (Nussbaumstraße 20, Klinik für Allgemeine, Unfall-, Hand- und Plastische Chirurgie).
• 18-01-2017: Information on course details and introductory meeting for follow shortly.
• 09-05-2017: Paper assignments published on course website (see papers table).
• 29-05-2017: The presentation slots have been published on the course website (see schedule table).

Introduction

This praktikum introduces common tools and principles in computer graphics for applications in the field of augmented reality. The Seminar will propose a list of recent scientific articles related to the main current research topics in computer graphics for augmented reality together with some interesting papers from other communities.

The range of topics includes:

• Real-time realistic rendering
• Character animation
• AR display technologies
• Perception

Registration

• It should be done through the TUM Matching Platform (please pay attention to the Deadlines).

Requirements

In this Master Seminar (formerly Hauptseminar), each student is asked to select one paper from a list. In order to successfully complete the seminar, participants have to fulfill these requirements:

• Presentation: The selected paper is presented to the other participants (20 minutes presentation 10 minutes questions). Use the CAMP templates for PowerPoint camp-tum-jhu-slides.potx, or Latex: CAMP-latex-template.zip.
• Written Report: A document of maximum 2 pages is written and submitted one week after the presentation. Please download and use the llncs2e.zip Latex template.
• Attendance: Participants have to participate actively in all seminar sessions.

The students are required to attend each seminar presentation which will be held during this course. Each presentation is followed by a discussion and everyone is encouraged to actively participate. The report must include all references used and must be written completely in your own words. Copy and paste will not be tolerated. Both report and presentation have to be done in English.

Schedule

Date	Time	Topic	Slides	Students
03.02.2017	15:30	Introductory meeting	slides	Students who join this meeting and show their interest will have high priority!
04.05.2017	16:00 - 17:00	Introduction and Papers Assignment	slides	Send your preferences by Monday May 8th, 9am to Ulrich Eck
04.07.2017	12:00 - 14:00	Participant Presentations Session 1		Saporta, Kanaeva, Czempiel, Erikov
11.07.2017	12:00 - 14:00	Participant Presentations Session 2		Schlattinger, Lafci, Levy Lansch
18.07.2017	12:00 - 14:00	Participant Presentations Session 3		Staab, Padmakumara Mallikaarachchige
20.07.2017	12:00 - 14:00	Participant Presentations Session 4		Würl, Maulana, Musabayli

List of Topics and Material

The list of papers:

No	Application	Title	Conference/Journal	Tutor	Student	Link
01		Kronander, J. et al.: ‘Photorealistic rendering of mixed reality scenes’	Computer Graphics Forum, 2015, 34	Jakob Weiss	Würl	paper
02		Franke, T.A.: ‘Delta Voxel Cone Tracing’	IEEE ISMAR 2014	Jakob Weiss	Maulana	paper
03		Rohmer, K. et al.: ‘Interactive near-field illumination for photorealistic augmented reality on mobile devices’	IEEE ISMAR 2014	Jakob Weiss	Musabayli	paper
04		Gruber, L. et al.: ‘Image-space illumination for augmented reality in dynamic environments’	IEEE Virtual Reality Conference 2015	Jakob Weiss	Padmakumara Mallikaarachchige	paper
05		Richter-Trummer, T. et al.: ‘Instant Mixed Reality Lighting from Casual Scanning’	IEEE ISMAR 2016	Jakob Weiss		paper
06		Bichlmeier, C. et al.: ‘Hybrid In-Situ Visualization Method for Improving Multi-Sensory Depth Perception in Medical Augmented Reality’	ISMAR, 2007	Ulrich Eck	Staab	paper
07		Kytoe, M. et al.: ‘Stereoscopic depth perception in video see-through augmented reality within action space’	Journal of Electronic Imaging 2014	Ulrich Eck	Schlattinger	paper
08		Cheng, D. et al.: ‘Design of an ultra-thin near-eye display with geometrical waveguide and freeform optics’	Optics Express 2014	Ulrich Eck		paper
09		Maimone, A. et al.: ‘Pinlight Displays: Wide Field of View Augmented Reality Eyeglasses using Defocused Point Light Sources’	ACM TOG 2014	Ulrich Eck	Lafci	paper
10		Dunn, D. et al.: ‘Wide Field Of View Varifocal Near-Eye Display Using See-Through Deformable Membrane Mirrors’	TVCG 2017	Ulrich Eck	Levy Langsch	paper
11		Baran, I. & Popovic, J.: ‘Automatic Rigging and Animation of 3D Characters’	SIGGRAPH 2012	Felix Bork	Saporta	paper
12		Kavan, L. et al.: ‘Geometric Skinning with Approximate Dual Quaternion Blending’	ACM TOG 2008	Felix Bork	Kanaeva	paper
13		Vaillant, R. et al: ‘Implicit Skinning: Real-Time Skin Deformation with Contact Modeling’	ACM TOG 2013	Felix Bork	Czempiel	paper
14		Ali-Hamadi, D. et al.: ‘Anatomy Transfer’	ACM TOG 2013	Felix Bork	Erikov	paper
15		Kadlecek, P. et al.: ‘Reconstructing Personalized Anatomical Models for Physics-based Body Animation’	SIGGRAPH Asia 2016	Felix Bork		paper

Literature and Helpful Links

A lot of scientific publications can be found online.

The following list may help you to find some further information on your particular topic:

• Microsoft Academic Search
• Google Scholar
• CiteSeer
• CiteULike
• Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies

Some publishers:

• ScienceDirect (Elsevier Journals)
• IEEE Journals
• ACM Digital Library

Libraries (online and offline):

• http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/ (Elektronische Zeitschriften Bibliothek)
• Verbundkatalog des Bibliotheksverbundes Bayern (BVB)
• Computer ORG
• http://www.ub.tum.de/ (TUM Library)
  • To get access onto the electronic library, see http://www.ub.tum.de/medien/ejournals/readme.html
  • "proxy.biblio.tu-muenchen.de" mit Port 8080 (nur fuer http). Damit klappen zumindest portal.acm.org und computer.org meistens
• Various proceedings of conferences in our AR-Lab, 03.13.036 (These proceedings are not for lending!)

Some further hints for working with references:

• JabRef is a Java program for comfortable working with Bibtex literature databases. Handy feature: if you know the PubMed ID for an article, JabRef can import data from there (via "Web Search/Medline").
• Mendeley is a cross-platform program for organising your references.

If you find useful resources that are not already listed here, please tell us, so we can add them for others. Thanks.