Selected Topics in Information Science
Fall Semester, 2008

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  • Week 1:
    • Entropy
    • 3D transforms
  • Week 2:
    • Entropy and information
    • Visual appearance and texturing
  • Week 3:
    • Entropy rate, data compression
    • Advanced lighting and shading
  • Week 4:
    • Kolmogorov complexity
    • Non-photorealistic rendering
  • Week 5:
    • Channel capacity
    • Image-based rendering
  • Week 6:
    • Differential entropy
    • Acceleration algorithms
  • Week 7:
    • The Gaussian channel
    • Surface geometry
  • Week 8:
    • Information theory and statistics
    • Intersection detection
  • Week 9:
    • Rate distortion theory
    • Collision detection
  • Week 10:
    • Introduction to MIMO systems
    • Projective geometry and transformations
  • Week 11:
    • Analytical MIMO channel representations
    • Estimation and evaluation
  • Week 12:
    • MIMO channel capacity
    • Camera models
  • Week 13:
    • Space-time coding over iid Rayleigh flat fading channels
    • Single view geometry
  • Week 14:
    • Space-time coding over MIMO channels with no transmit channel knowledge
    • Two view geometry
  • Week 15:
    • Space-time coding with partial transmit channel knowledge
    • N-view geometry I
  • Week 16:
    • Space-time coding for frequency selective channels
    • N-view geometry II