CSE 872 Media Processing and Multimedia

Fall, 2008

Charles B. Owen, instructor, cbowen@cse.msu.edu

This is the home page for CSE 872:  Advanced Computer Graphics. 

This course will study the use of media in computer applications.  Students will study basic signal and image processing and the manipulation of audio, images, and video content. We will learn how to acquire, process, and organize multimedia information.  This will include the use of tools and packages as well as creating your own programs to access and process multimedia data.  Students will also study some artistic and perceptual/cognitive principles relevant to presentation of multimedia information. 

The course syllabus is available in PDF format.

Project 2

Course resources

• Course syllabus pdf
• Recommended software
• Installing COpenGLWnd
• Installing CGrCamera
• Some general graphics support files:  graphics.zip

Lecture sets

1. CSE 872: Advanced Computer Graphics 8-25-08 Powerpoint
2. Review: The Basics 8-25-08 Powerpoint
3. Ray Tracing I 9-10-08 Powerpoint
4. Ray Tracing Variants 9-17-08 Powerpoint
5. Other Rendering Techniques 9-22-08 Powerpoint
6. Scene graphs and other modeling structures 10-1-08 Powerpoint

Notice: Some lecture sets are very large because they contain a large number of images. 

Tutorials
 

• Tutorial 1: Introduction to Visual Studio and OpenGLWnd
• Tutorial 2: Working in 3D
• Tutorial 3: Introduction to Lighting
• Tutorial 4: Texture Mapping
• Tutorial 5: Antialiasing and other fun with the Accumulation Buffer
• Tutorial 9: Picking and Interaction

Explorations
PDF Format

• Explorations

      Due dates: ***revised***

• September 15
• October 13
• October 27
• November 24

Projects
 

• Project 1 Due 10-6-08
• Project 2 Due 11-3-08
• Project 3 Due 12-15-08