Syllabus - Student View

Image Processing and Graphics

Code: 3C79 /D31

Content for graphics:

Introduction to graphics rendering	The painter's method > Points, Lines, Vectors
Creating an image using ray tracing	Ray casting using a simple camera Local illumination Global illumination with recursive ray tracing
Specifying a general camera	World/image coordinates Creation of an arbitrary camera Ray tracing with an arbitrary camera
Constructing a scene	Definition of polyhedra Scene hierarchy Transformation of objects/rays Other modeling techniques
From ray tracing to projecting polygons	Transforming the polygons to image space Sutherland-Hodgman clipping Weiler-Atherton clipping
Polygon rasterization	Scan conversion z-buffer interpolated shading texture mapping

Resources:

A Watt and F Policarpo, The Computer Image, Addison Wesley 1998, ISBN 0-201-42298-0

A K Jain, Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing, Prentice Hall, 1989, ISBN 0-13-336165-9

W K Pratt, Digital Image Processing, John Wiley and Sons, 1991, ISBN 0-471-85766-1

R Jain, R Kasturi and B G Schunck, Machine Vision, McGraw-Hill, 1995, ISBN 0-07-113407-7

Computer Graphics And Virtual Environments - From Realism to Real-Time. Mel Slater, Yiorgos Chrysanthou, Anthony Steed, ISBN 0201-62420-6, Addison-Wesley, 2002.