Selected Topics in Information Science
Fall Semester, 2008
- General information
- Lecture content
- Week 1:
- 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