CS 348C Reading list and class schedule

CS 348C - Topics in Computer Graphics
Virtual reality
Stanford University

Marc Levoy and Bill Lorensen
Winter, 1996

*** Part I: input/output technologies (11 classes)

Stereoscopic display (4 classes)

Stereo perception

• Davis, E.T., Hodges, L.F., Human Steropsis, Fusion, and Stereoscopic Virtual Environments, In Virtual Environments and Advanced Interface Design, W. Barfield and T.A. Furness III eds., Oxford, 1995.

Stereo display

• Hodges, L., Time-Multiplexed Stereoscopic Computer Graphics, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 12, No. 2, March, 1992, pp. 20-30.
• Tessman, T., Perspectives on Stereo, Proc. SPIE: Stereoscopic Displays and Applications, Vol. 1256, February, 1990, pp. 22-27.
• Adelson, S.J., Bentley, J.B., Chong, I.S., Hodges, L.F., and Winograd, J., Simultaneous Generation of Stereoscopic Views, Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 10, 1991, pp. 3-10.

Head-tracked stereo

• Deering, M., High Resolution Virtual Reality, Computer Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH '92), Vol. 26, No. 2, July 1992, pp. 195-202.
• Cruz-Neira, C., Sandin, D.J., DeFanti, T.A., Surround-screen projection-based virtual reality: the design and implementation of the CAVE, Proc. SIGGRAPH '93 (Anaheim, California, August 1-6, 1993). In Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, 1993, ACM SIGGRAPH, pp. 135-142.
• Krueger, W., Bohn, C.-A., Froehlich, B., Schueth, H., Strauss, W., Wesche, G., The Responsive Workbench, IEEE Computer, Vol. 28, No. 7, July, 1995, pp. 42-48.

Autostereoscopic displays

• Johnson, P. and DeHoff, R., Field Sequential Stereoscopic Graphics Systems and Applications, SIGGRAPH '90 course #6 notes: Stereographics, Dallas, August, 1990, pp. 3-1 - 3-7 and figures.
• Eichenlaub, J.B., Dimension Technologies' Autostereoscopic Method, SIGGRAPH '90 course #6 notes: Stereographics, Dallas, August, 1990, pp. 12.1-12.11.
• Mills, P.H., Fuchs, H. and Pizer, S.M., High-Speed Interaction on a Vibrating-Mirror 3D Display, Proc. SPIE: Processing and Display of Three-Dimensional Information II, Vol. 507, 1984, pp. 93-101.
• Many small papers in Proc. SPIE 2409: Stereoscopic Displays and Virtual Reality Systems

Holographic displays (1 class)

Computed-generated holography:

• Benton, S.A. and Lucente, M., Interactive Computation of Display Holograms, Proc. Computer Graphics International '92, T.L. Kunii, ed., Springer Verlag, Tokyo, June, 1992.
• Lucente, M. and Galyean, T.A., Rendering Interactive Holographic Images, Proc. SIGGRAPH '95 (Los Angeles, CA, August 6-11, 1995). In Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, 1995, ACM SIGGRAPH, pp. 387-394.

Head-mounted displays (2 classes)

Overview

• Kocian, D.F., Task, H.L., Visually Coupled Systems Hardware and the Human Interface, In Virtual Environments and Advanced Inteface Design, W. Barfield and T.A. Furness III eds., Oxford, 1995, pp. 175-257.

Optics

• Howlett, E.M., Wide Angle Orthostereo, Proc. SPIE: Stereoscopic Displays and Applications, Vol. 1256, February, 1990, pp. 210-223.
  
• Robinett, W. and Rolland, J.P., A Computational Model for the Stereoscopic Optics of a Head-Mounted Display, Presence, Vol. 1, No. 1, January, 1992.

Tracking technologies (2 classes)

UNC system

• Ward, M., Azuma, R., Bennett, R., Gottschalk, S., Fuchs, H., A Demonstrated Optical Tracker with Scalable Work Area for Head-Mounted Display Systems, Proc. 1992 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, March, 1992, Cambridge, Mass., pp. 43-52.
• Azuma, R. and Bishop, G., Improving static and dynamic registration in an optical see-through HMD, Proc. SIGGRAPH '94 (Orlando, Florida, July 24-29, 1994). In Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, 1994, ACM SIGGRAPH, pp. 197-204.
• Azuma, R. and Bishop, G., A frequency-domain analysis of head-motion prediction, Proc. SIGGRAPH '95 (Los Angeles, CA, August 6-11, 1995). In Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, 1995, ACM SIGGRAPH, pp. 401-408.

Other optical trackers

• Sorensen, B.R., Donath, M., Yang, G.-B., and Starr, R.C., The Minnesota Scanner: A Prototype Sensor for Three-Dimensional Tracking of Moving Body Segments, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 5, No. 4, August, 1989, pp. 499-509.
• Gruss, A., Tada, S., Kanade, T., A VLSI Smart Senor for Fast Range Imaging, Proc. DARPA Image Understanding Workshop, April, 1993, pp. 977-986.

Force display (2 classes)

Large-scale ("haptic")

• Hannaford, B., Venema, S., Kinesthetic Displays for Remote and Virtal Environments, In Virtual Environments and Advanced Inteface Design, W. Barfield and T.A. Furness III eds., Oxford, 1995, pp. 415-436.
  
• Salisbury, K., Brock, D., Massie, T., Swarup, N., Zilles, C., Haptic rendering: programming touch interaction with virtual objects, Proc. 1995 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, Monterey, April, 1995, ACM, pp. 123-130.
• Finch, M., Chi, V.L., Taylor, R.M. II, Falvo, M., Washburn, S., Superfine, R., Surface modification tools in a virtual environment interface to a scanning probe microscope, Proc. 1995 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, Monterey, April, 1995, ACM, pp. 13-18.

Small-scale ("tactile")

• Kaczmarek, K.A., Bach-Y-Rita, P., Tactile Displays In Virtual Environments and Advanced Inteface Design, W. Barfield and T.A. Furness III eds., Oxford, 1995, pp. 349-414.
  
• Minsky, M., Ouh-young, M., Steele, O., Brooks, F.P., Jr., Behensky, M., Feeling and Seeing: Issues in Force Display. Computer Graphics (Proc. 1990 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics), Vol. 24, No. 2, March, 1990, pp. 235-243.

*** Part II: virtual worlds

Building and interacting with virtual worlds (3 classes)

Modeling

• Rohlf, J., Helman, J., IRIS Performer: A High Performance Multiprocessing Toolkit for Real-Time 3D Graphics, Proc. SIGGRAPH '94 (Orlando, Florida, July 24-29, 1994). In Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, 1994, ACM SIGGRAPH, pp. 381-394.
• VRML Repository

Manipulation

• Cohen, J.D., Lin, M.C., Manocha, D., Ponamgi, M., I-COLLIDE: an interactive and exact collision detection system for large-scale environments, Proc. 1995 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, Monterey, April, 1995, ACM, pp. 189-196.
• Bukowski, R.W. and Sequin, C.H., Object associations: a simple and practical approach to virtual 3D manipulation, Proc. 1995 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, Monterey, April, 1995, ACM, pp. 131-138.
  

Navigation

• Ware, C., Osborne, S., "Exploration and Virtual Camera Control in Virtual Three Dimensional Environments", ACM SIGGRAPH 1990 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, Computer Graphics, Vol.24, No.2, Mar 1990, pp.175-183.
• Galyean, T., Guided Navigation of Virtual Environments, Proc. 1995 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, Monterey, April, 1995, ACM, pp. 103-104 (and video).
• Drucker, S.M. and Zeltzer, D., CamDroid: a system for implementing intelligent camera control, Proc. 1995 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, Monterey, April, 1995, ACM, pp. 139-144.

Displaying virtual worlds (3 classes)

Display architectures

• Olano, M., Cohen, J., Mine, M., Bishop, G., Combatting rendering latency, Proc. 1995 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, Monterey, April, 1995, ACM, pp. 19-24.
  
• Regan, M. and Pose, R., Priority rendering with a virtual reality address recalculation pipeline, Proc. SIGGRAPH '94 (Orlando, Florida, July 24-29, 1994). In Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, 1994, ACM SIGGRAPH, pp. 155-162.

Visibility

• Teller, S.J., Sequin, C.H., Visibility Preprocessing for Interactive Walkthroughs, Computer Graphics (Proc. Siggraph '91), Vol. 25, No. 4, July, 1991, pp. 61-69.
• Greene, N., Kass, M., Miller, G., Hierarchical Z-Buffer Visibility Proc. SIGGRAPH '93 (Anaheim, California, August 1-6, 1993). In Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, 1993, ACM SIGGRAPH, pp. 231-238.

Level-of-detail

• Funkhouser, T.A., Sequin, C.H., Adaptive Display Algorithm for Interactive Frame Rates During Visualization of Complex Virtual Environments, Proc. SIGGRAPH '93 (Anaheim, California, August 1-6, 1993). In Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, 1993, ACM SIGGRAPH, pp. 247-254.
• Heckbert, P., Garland, M., Multiresolution Modeling for Fast Rendering, Proc. Graphics Interface '94 (May 18-20, 1994, Banff, Alberta), Canadian Information Processing Society, pp. 43-50.

Image-based rendering (1 class)(Lecture by Levoy)

Approaches that require feature matching

• Chen and Williams, View interpolation for image synthesis, Proc. SIGGRAPH '93 (Anaheim, California, August 1-6, 1993). In Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, 1993, ACM SIGGRAPH, pp. 279-288.
• McMillan, L. and Bishop, G., Plenoptic Modeling: An Image-Based Rendering System, In Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, 1995, ACM SIGGRAPH, pp. 39-46.

Approaches that do not

• Chen, S.E., QuickTime VR - An Image-Based Approach to Virtual Environment Navigation, Proc. SIGGRAPH '95 (Los Angeles, CA, August 6-11, 1995). In Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, 1995, ACM SIGGRAPH, pp. 29-38
• Levoy, M. and Hanrahan, P., Light Field Rendering, Submitted to Siggraph '96.