SGN-5906 Spring 2010 Postgraduate Seminar:

Mobile VR, AR and 3D graphics

The seminar is organised during periods 4 & 5 in Spring 2010. This page will be continuously updated. Check back often.

Topic: Yearly changing topic. This year the seminar will focus on recent developments in mobile VR/AR and 3D graphics. They are emerging to wider deployment also in the mobile world, and advances in technology has made possible many unprecedented features and applications.

Organisation: Lectures approx. 20 hours, personal assignments, and final workshop.

The VR course should be taken before coming to this seminar. This course is intended for both undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Format: Lectures are in English and organised as student presentations, supported by invited expert presentations and other material. The goal of the presentations is to seek and analyse information about a given topic.

In order to participate, you must give two 45min presentations and a final presentation at the workshop in May. The presentations will be allocated during the first lecture.

Each student is required to attend at least 70% of the lectures and to attend the final workshop. Due to the nature of the seminar, please do not drop out.

The final workshop presentation consists of writing an English language conference paper and presenting it in the final workshop. The workshop is organised as a real scientific workshop at the end of the seminar and is used to disseminate information to others and to train presentation skills in real scientific events.

Place and Time: TC131, Thursdays at 12:15 - 14:00, and workshop in May 2010, date to be defined later.

Timetable: The first lecture will be on Thursday, March 4th. The tentative schedule is given below.

Session

Topic

Lecturer

4.3.2010

Introduction, overview, seminar organization

Ismo Rakkolainen

11.3.2010

Mobile 3DTV

Dr. Atanas Gotchev, TUT

18.3.2010

Mobile Mixed Reality

Dr. Ville-Veikko Mattila, Nokia

25.3.2010

No presentations

-

1.4.2010

Graphics Engines,
OpenGL ES,
M3G

MB,
JM
AR

8.4.2010

Exam week, no presentations

-

15.4.2010

No presentations

-

22.4.2010

Topic here

Lecturer here

29.4.2010

Topic here

Lecturer here

6.5.2010

Topic here

Lecturer here

13.5.2010

Holiday

-

20.5.2010

Final workshop??

Lecturers here

Literature: Various recent books, articles and web sources.

Pulli et al: Mobile 3D Graphics
Hainich: The End of Hardware
Bimber, Raskar: Spatial augmented reality
Nurminen: Mobile Three-Dimensional City Maps
Journal and conference articles
Etc.

Credits: 5 cr.

The course web page: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~ira/opetus/vrsem2010.html