Winter 2020 CSC320H1S Introduction to Visual Computing

This course is a beginner-level introduction to computer graphics and computer vision. It is aimed at undergraduates who have an interest in imaging or the visual arts. It will offer a unified treatment of image synthesis and image analysis techniques and will cover three major topics: (1) Principles of Visual Computing: Computational and mathematical methods for creating, capturing, analyzing and manipulating digital photographs. (2) Digital Special Effects: Case studies that examine how visual computing principles were used to create visual effects in movies and commercials. (3) Visual Programming: Programming assignments intended to give hands-on experience with implementing programs for synthesizing and manipulating photographs.

- Instructor
- Yawen Ma
- Contact
- Private post on Piazza
- Lecture & Tutorial
- Wed. 6-8pm & 8-9pm, BA 1170
- Office Hour
- Wed. 5-6pm, BA 3289

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Course Information Sheet

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Resources (Slides, readings, assignments, etc.)

Optional textbook: http://szeliski.org/Book/drafts/SzeliskiBook_20100903_draft.pdf

Contact

For help from instructors, please use Piazza to send a private post. For help with the material and assignments, we encourage students to first check the piazza forums, and then to reach out to the instructors/TAs in office hours/tutorials. Please only e-mail instructors for exceptional circumstances.