CS569 – Mobile and Ubiquitous Graphics

Instructor

Tolga K. Çapın

Phone

(312) 290 1218

Office

EA 431

E-mail

tcapin [at] bilkent.edu.tr

Class hours

Wednesdays, 8:40-10:30

Fridays, 10:40-11:30

Office Hours

Open door policy. Check my calendar at web site.

Schedule of Lectures and Assignments

		Introduction
Week 1	Wed, Sep 17	Introduction to CS569
	Fri, Sep 19	State of Art in Mobile Graphics
		Mobile Platforms and Technology
Week 2	Wed, Sep 24	Real-Time Rendering Pipeline	RA1: Pulli05 out (due 8 Oct).
	Fri, Sep 26	Mobile APIs; M3G	RA2: Möller08 out (due 15 Oct).	IA1 out: M3G programming (due Oct 15). Akenine-Möller’s Assignment 1 page.
Week 3	Wed, Oct 1 Fri, Oct 3	Holidays, no class Holidays, no class

Week 4	Wed, Oct 8 Fri, Oct 10	Traveling, no class Traveling, no class	RA1 due
Week 5	Wed, Oct 15 Fri, Oct 17	Traveling, no class Students present term project ideas	RA2 due	PR1 out: Project Proposal (due 27 Oct) IA1 due: M3G programming
Week 6	Wed, Oct 22 Fri, Oct 24	Rasterization and Interpolation Rasterization and Interpolation (cont.) Using OpenGL ES 1.x	RA3: Möller03 out (due 31 Oct).	IA2 out: OpenGL ES Game (due 14 Nov) PR1 due: Project Proposal
Week 7	Wed, Oct 29 Fri, Oct 31	Holidays, no class Antialiasing	RA3 due
Week 8	Wed, Nov. 5 Fri, Nov 7	Texturing Using OpenGL ES 2.x

Week 9	Wed, Nov. 12 Fri, Nov. 14	Texture and Buffer Compression Culling	RA4: Ström05 out (due 19 Nov)

Presentation Schedule:


Week 10	Wed, Nov. 19	Cihan, Adil	Transmission / streaming of 3D models to mobile devices
	Fri, Nov. 21	Doğan, Can	Remote rendering
Week 11	Wed, Nov. 26	Denizhan, Mustafa	Multi-view rendering; visualization
	Fri, Nov. 28	Zeynep, Abdullah	Mobile perception; depth perception, NPR
Week 12	Wed, Dec. 3	Duygu, Mehmet	Direct manipulation
	Fri, Dec. 5	Yeliz, Bertan	3DUI and Mobile UI
Week 13	Wed, Dec. 10	---	---
	Fri, Dec. 12	---	---
Week 14	Wed, Dec. 17	Sercan, Emre	Mobile Augmented Reality

Reading Assignments

· RA1: Pulli05 – Kari Pulli, Tomi Aarnio, Kimmo Roimela, Jani Vaarala, "Designing Graphics Programming Interfaces for Mobile Devices," IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications ,vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 66-75, November/December, 2005.

· RA2: Möller08 – Tomas Akenine-Möller and Jacob Ström, Graphics Processing Units for Handhelds, Proceedings of the IEEE, special issue on Cutting-Edge Computing, vol. 96, no. 5, May 2008.

· RA3: Möller03 – Tomas Akenine-Möller and Jacob Ström, 2003. Graphics for the Masses: A Hardware Rasterization Architecture for Mobile Phones. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 22, 3, 801–808.

· RA4: Ström05 – Ström, J. and Akenine-Möller, T. 2005. iPACKMAN: high-quality, low-complexity texture compression for mobile phones. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS Conference on Graphics Hardware (Los Angeles, California, July 30 - 31, 2005). HWWS '05. ACM, New York, NY, 63-70.

Text:

Mobile 3D Graphics – with OpenGL ES and M3G, Pulli et. al, Morgan Kauffman, 2008 (required)

Additional journal and conference articles will be provided in class.

Description:

This course will teach current techniques in mobile and ubiquitous graphics. By the end of the course, students will:

· understand the fundamental research problems in mobile and ubiquitous graphics

· use mobile graphics techniques to develop mobile applications

· read and critically evaluate the current literature in mobile graphics and ubiquitous computing

This course will introduce techniques such as mobile graphics hardware and software, low-level rendering techniques, scene graph management, remote rendering. The course will also explore state-of-the-art research topics in 3D user interfaces, 3D displays, mobile visualization, 3D model transmission, and gesture-based interaction.

Prerequisites:

There is no prerequisite for this course, but an undergraduate level course on computer graphics (CS465) and basic knowledge of OpenGL and computer human interaction techniques will be a big plus. Students are expected to be very comfortable with programming and graphics at the level of the undergraduate advanced course. Students taking the course must have in possession a programmable mobile device with a state-of-the-art GPU (graphics hardware) on it.

Grading:

Activity	Grade
Project	40%
Programming Assignments	30%
Reading Assignments	20%
Participation	10%

The largest contribution to the course grade will be a 10-week course project (40%). This includes selecting a topic, submitting a proposal, doing the actual work, writing a research paper, presenting the results, and creating a presentation based on the project. The project topic may be either a design of an original solution and implementation of a new research idea, or detailed evaluation and categorization of recent research publications.

Students will be given three medium-scale programming assignments and weekly reading assignments. Programming assignments will have to be implemented on a mobile device with a GPU, and require knowledge of OpenGL/C/C++. Reading assignments require reading a recent research article and making critical evaluation of it.

Project Topics (Tentative):

The topics must relate to mobile graphics, and the topics discussed in class:

- Mobile graphics architectures

- Mobile graphics rendering and optimization techniques

- Mobile user interfaces, interaction design and techniques, user-centered studies

- Camera-based or sensor-based user interaction

- Streaming mobile multimedia

- Mobile media management

- Intelligent, aware, proactive, and attentive environments, perception and modeling of the environment

Students can also propose a project idea based on their research interests.

Submission Policy

Each assignment should be submitted electronically by email, before the beginning of the class on the day the assignment is due. If students don't submit homework on time, the following lateness policy applies.

Submission Policy

Each assignment should be submitted electronically, before the beginning of the class on the day the assignment is due. Students have 3 late days that they may use for any of the programs or project stage during the semester (except the final project presentations).

Readings