Moodle UDE

This course is your opportunity to speak English on a regular basis. Through various prepared and spontaneous activities, you will hone your powers of persuasion and argument and develop your formal speaking skills. These activities may include storytelling, passionate talks, debates and other group tasks. You will receive constructive feedback from your peers, from your instructor and even from yourselves when you reflect on your speeches and presentations. Beyond mere and mandatory participation, lively debate, creativity and humor are very welcome in this course.

In this course students will be given the opportunity to improve their oral language skills by participating in in-class debates on a wide variety of controversial issues. In so doing, students will be able to develop their public speaking skills as well as hone their powers of persuasion by arguing for or against motions which they may not necessarily support or have strong views about themselves. Students will be expected to take an active part in all debates, either as speakers in at least two debates or as members of the audience in the open discussions towards the end of each debate.

In addition, we will continue our review of problem areas in English which frequently cause difficulty to German learners and therefore lead to mistakes. As in Basic Communication Skills II, students will be expected to identify, correct and explain typical errors that Germans still make at university level in the area of grammar, vocabulary, punctuation and spelling.

Liebe Studierende,

auf Grund der aktuellen Lage kann der Workshop dieses Semester leider nicht stattfinden. Wir gehen davon aus, dass im nächsten Semester der Kurs wieder regulär angeboten werden kann.

This lecture deals with the fundamentals of photorealistic and interactive image synthesis. In particular, we discuss techniques to achieve interactive frame rates for the realistic rendering of complex models and scenes using GPU accelerated techniques. Selected graphics algorithms and their efficient implementation exploiting state-of-the-art graphics hardware through graphics APIs will be demonstrated. We focus on dedicated parts of the graphics pipeline and we review the functionality provided by consumer class graphics accelerators including programmable vertex-, geometry- and fragment shaders. In addition, we discuss the governing equations in physics based light transport and we demonstrate effective solution methods for the simulation of global illumination. Topics include:

• Interactive image synthesis
• Graphics APIs & hardware, OpenGL, DirectX, Vulkan and CUDA
• Fixed function & programmable graphics pipeline
• Introduction to General-purpose computation on graphics hardware (GPGPU)
• Lighting
• Local lighting models
• GPU implementation
• Environment Mapping
• GPU Shadowing techniques
• Projective Shadows
• Shadow Volumes
• Shadow Maps
• Transparent Objects:
• (depth) sorting with implementations on graphics hardware
• Order independent transparency & depth peeling on GPUs
• Physics based rendering
• Radiometric quantities, rendering equation
• Raytracing / path tracing
• Radiosity
• Irradiance volumes
• Precomputed radiance transfer (PRT)
• Ambient Occlusion with focus on GPU-based interactive methods
• Special topics:
• GPU friendly High quality terrain rendering & synthesis
• Rendering of fur and hair
• Scenegraph APIs
• Acceleration structures and culling techniques
• Human visual perception and high dynamic range imaging (HDRI)
• REYES
• Image compression techniques