![](gfx_group_logo.png width="450px" border="0") Welcome to McGill's Graphics++ Reading Group! Every few weeks, we will have a presentation of a paper that is related (even if tangentially) to topics of interest for graphics researchers. Protocol =============================================================================== So you want to present the next paper? Great! Here's how to do it: 1. Pick a paper from the list. 2. Choose the time and date of your presentation. - Allow yourself atleast 4 weeks before the presentation. 3. Notify the organizer at keven.villeneuve@mail.mcgill.ca 4. Read the paper and take notes. 5. Discuss with a professor to isolate a part of the paper that you will implement. 6. Implement the choosen part and generate results. 7. Create a powerpoint presentation. 8. Present the paper, it's your time to shine. :) Good luck! Paper Recommendations =============================================================================== *Have a paper you want added to the list? Run it by the Profs!* - [Guided Learning of Control Graphs for Physics-Based Characters](https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~van/papers/2016-TOG-controlGraphs/index.html) - [DeepLoco: Dynamic Locomotion Skills Using Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning](https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~van/papers/2017-TOG-deepLoco/index.html) Calendar =============================================================================== Thursday July 20, 2017: Precomputed Radiance Transfer for Real-Time Rendering in Dynamic, Low-Frequency Lighting Environments - Presenter: Keven Villeneuve - [Paper](http://www.ppsloan.org/publications/shillum_final23.pdf) (Sloan et al., SIGGRAPH 2002) - [Code](https://github.com/kevenv/prt) - [Presentation](https://github.com/kevenv/prt/blob/master/pres/pres%20PRT.pdf) (Tuesday July 25, 2017): None - N/A (Tuesday August 8, 2017): None - N/A (Tuesday August 15, 2017): None - N/A (Tuesday August 22, 2017): None - N/A (Tuesday August 29, 2017): None - N/A Tuesday September 19, 2017: Animating Elastic Rods with Sound - Presenter: Adam Bognat - [Paper](https://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/rodsound/2017ElasticRodSound.pdf) (Schweickart et al., SIGGRAPH 2017) - Code - Presentation (Tuesday September 26, 2017): None - N/A Tuesday November 21, 2017: Progressive Growing of GANs for Improved Quality, Stability, and Variation - Presenter: Sayantan Datta - [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.10196) (submitted to ICLR 2018) - [Website with Code and Data](http://research.nvidia.com/publication/2017-10_Progressive-Growing-of) - [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOxxPcy5Gr4) Tuesday December 5, 2017: TOMOGRAPH Dry Run - Special edition where each person is going to do a dry run of their presentation. Tuesday January 16, 2018: Procedural Noise using Sparse Gabor Convolution - Presenter: Nicholas Leavitt - [Paper](http://graphics.cs.kuleuven.be/publications/LLDD09PNSGC/LLDD09PNSGC_paper.pdf) (submitted to SIGGRAPH 2009) - [Website with Code and Data](http://graphics.cs.kuleuven.be/publications/LLDD09PNSGC/) - [Video](http://graphics.cs.kuleuven.be/publications/LLDD09PNSGC/LLDD09PNSGC_video.avi) Tuesday January 30, 2018: Real-time Global Illumination by Precomputed Local Reconstruction from Sparse Radiance Probes - Presenter: Nicolas Vibert & Keven Villeneuve - [Paper](https://users.aalto.fi/~silvena4/Publications/Real-time_Global_Illumination_by_Precomputed_Local_Reconstruction_from_Sparse_Radiance_Probes.pdf) (submitted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2017) - [Website with Code and Data](https://users.aalto.fi/~silvena4/Projects/RTGI/index.html) - [Youtube](https://youtu.be/YTSlMwh-79M) - [Code and presentation](https://github.com/kevenv/plrt) Tuesday February 20, 2018: Discrete Viscous Threads - Presenter: Adam Bognat - [Paper](http://www.cs.columbia.edu/cg/pdfs/171-threads.pdf) (submitted to SIGGRAPH 2010) - [Video](http://www.cs.columbia.edu/cg/threads/threads.mov) (Tuesday March 6, 2018): None - N/A Tuesday March 13, 2018: Metropolis Light Transport - Presenter: Joey Litalien & Fan Ma - [Paper](https://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/metro/metro.pdf) (submitted to SIGGRAPH 1997) - [Website](http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/metro/) - [Code](https://github.com/joeylitalien/mlt) Tuesday March 27, 2018: Bounded Biharmonic Weights for Real-Time Deformation - Presenter: Krisztian G. Birkas - [Paper](http://igl.ethz.ch/projects/bbw/bounded-biharmonic-weights-siggraph-2011-jacobson-et-al.pdf) (submitted to SIGGRAPH 2011) - [Website with Code and Data](http://igl.ethz.ch/projects/bbw/) - [Video](http://igl.ethz.ch/projects/bbw/bounded-biharmonic-weights.mp4) (Tuesday April 24, 2018): None - N/A Tuesday May 1, 2018: On-line Learning of Parametric Mixture Models for Light Transport Simulation - Presenter: Yangyang Zhao - [Paper](http://cgg.mff.cuni.cz/~jirka/papers/2014/olpm/On-lineLearningPPMinLTS.pdf) (submitted to SIGGRAPH 2014) - [Website with Code and Data](http://cgg.mff.cuni.cz/~jirka/papers/2014/olpm/) - [Video](http://cgg.mff.cuni.cz/~jirka/papers/2014/olpm/video/bdpt_vcm.mp4) Tuesday May 22, 2018: Research on the intersection of Art, Human and Artificial Intelligence - Presenter: Frederic Fol Leymarie & Daniel Berio (Special visitors from out of town) - [Website](http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/autograff/) Tuesday May 29, 2018: Lighting Grid Hierarchy for Self-illuminating Explosions - Presenter: Yue Wang - [Paper](http://www.cemyuksel.com/research/lgh/lgh.pdf) (submitted to SIGGRAPH 2017) - [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWEPCU2d0WI) Thursday June 14, 2018: Learning Neural Character Controllers from Motion Capture Data - Presenter: Taku Komura - [Website](http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/tkomura/) Tuesday June 26, 2018: DeepMimic: Example-Guided Deep Reinforcement Learning of Physics-Based Character Skills - Presenter: Dave Meger - [Paper](https://xbpeng.github.io/projects/DeepMimic/2018_TOG_DeepMimic.pdf) (submitted to SIGGRAPH 2018) - [Website with Code and Data](https://xbpeng.github.io/projects/DeepMimic/index.html) - [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vppFvq2quQ0) Tuesday July 10th, 2018: Deep learning for universal linear embeddings of nonlinear dynamics - Presenter: Damien Rioux Lavoie & Joey Litalien - [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.09707) (submitted to arXiv in 2017) Tuesday August 7th, 2018: Developability of Triangle Meshes - Presenter: Robert Belfer - [Paper](http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/DiscreteDevelopable/paper.pdf) (submitted to SIGGRAPH 2018) - [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFUE_Vcevpw) (Tuesday August 28th, 2018): None - N/A Tuesday September 4th, 2018: Noise2Noise: Learning Image Restoration without Clean Data - Presenter: Fan Ma - [Paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.04189.pdf) (submitted to arXiv in 2018) - [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp7HdI0-MIo) Monday September 17th, 2018: Fusing State Spaces for Markov Chain Monte Carlo Rendering - Presenter: Nicolas Vibert - [Paper](https://www.ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~hachisuka/inverse.pdf) (submitted to SIGGRAPH 2017) Monday October 1st, 2018: Improving Sampling-based Motion Control - Presenter: Kevin Xie - [Paper](http://libliu.com/Samcon2/Samcon2_EG.pdf) (submitted to Eurographics in 2015) (Monday October 8th, 2018): None - N/A (Monday November 5th, 2018): None - N/A (Monday November 12th, 2018): None - N/A Monday December 3th, 2018: TBD - Presenter: Sayantan Datta