Moodle UDE

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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.

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

This introductory course focuses on discussing efficient techniques to visually represent large-scale data sets from simulation and measurement. Starting with a brief introduction on the data generation processes, the visualization pipeline, data structures, mapping techniques, and special rendering techniques for scientific data will be discussed. Various examples will outline the benefits of visualization techniques in practical applications. A particular focus is put on interactive methods using GPU-based techniques. 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

This introductory course focuses on discussing efficient techniques to visually represent large-scale data sets from simulation and measurement. Starting with a brief introduction on the data generation processes, the visualization pipeline, data structures, mapping techniques, and special rendering techniques for scientific data will be discussed. Various examples will outline the benefits of visualization techniques in practical applications. A particular focus is put on interactive methods using GPU-based techniques. 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

The main focus of this course is on the art of debating. Students will be given the opportunity to participate in a number of 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 to the debates, students will take part in several other oral activities in class, some of which require prior preparation.

This course deals with African American Vernacular English, the distinctive varieties of English used primarily by and among speakers of African background in North America. We will investigate the present-day linguistic features of AAVE, as well as the ways in which the variety is expressively employed in black speech communities. We will also spend some time exploring the history of AAVE, its source in African languages, as well as the controversial question of its possible creole ancestry. These issues will be discussed in the light of educational and applied concerns, such as teachers’ expectations and students' progress, linguistic profiling and discrimination of AAVE speakers.

This course deals with African American Vernacular English, the distinctive varieties of English used primarily by and among speakers of African background in North America. We will investigate the present-day linguistic features of AAVE, as well as the ways in which the variety is expressively employed in black speech communities. We will also spend some time exploring the history of AAVE, its source in African languages, as well as the controversial question of its possible creole ancestry. These issues will be discussed in the light of educational and applied concerns, such as teachers’ expectations and students' progress, linguistic profiling and discrimination of AAVE speakers.