CSL859 Projects </HEAD> <BODY> <H3> Project Ideas </H3> <UL> <LI> <H3> <A HREF=http://www.cse.iitd.ernet.in/~niloy/teaching/csl859/project.html>Niloy's Projects</A> </H3> <LI> <H3> Medical visualization: </H3> This will involve volume rendering (done via 3D textures). You should be able to display cut planes, volume internals as well as derived mesh structures (like isosurfaces). The bulk of the work will be in organization and efficient processing of the 3D textures. High quality illumination models will need to be coded in Cg. <lI> <H3> Virtual Department Walkthrough </H3> You will construct a virtual model of the CSE department and allow virtual walk through this model. The focus will be on a tool to model existing structures and its details. Although the view based reconstruction is not necessary, with that component this could be a 3 person project. Some Computer Vision background will be useful for that. <lI> <H3> Two person Computer Game </H3> As the name says, you will write a game. You will need to construct models of scene and characters in the game. You will need to animate those models and make them react to the players. Advanced shaders will be necessary. <lI> <H3> Texture Parameterization </H3> You will develop a system to assign texture coordinates to a model that introduces low distortion. You will then use this to represent the model at multiple levels of detail, while mapping properties like surface normals from the high-detail version to the low-detail version. <lI> <H3> Texture Generation </H3> You will develop a system for automatically generating texture that has the characterisitic of an example texture. For example, take a small picture of a wood table, and generate a large wood texture. This allows reduction in texture storage requirements. <lI> <H3> Livened Rendering </H3> We have talked in thie course mainly of making the images as realistic as possible. There are people who prefer non-photorealistic rendering (NPR), like sketching or chalk drawing. A middle path is to take realistic pictures and make them more lively -- like photographers do to touch up subjects for a portrait. Of course, you need to do this automatically every frame. </UL> These are just ideas, you are welcome to choose your own topic. It is expected that the projects will be in groups of 2. I want to make sure that you start on time -- a delay in previous assignment's submission is not a reason to start the project late. </BODY>