These paper summaries were written for CMPT 757, Frontiers of Visual Computing (Fall 2020) taught by Prof. Manolis Savva at Simon Fraser University. Each was limited to a single page with no figures, no equations, so they are short, dense write-ups aimed at capturing the core idea of each paper rather than detailed summaries. The selection of papers spans computer vision, graphics, and visualization. Listed below in the order they were assigned.

  1. ImageNet: A Large-Scale Hierarchical Image Database, CVPR 2009
  2. Multi-Scale Context Aggregation By Dilated Convolutions, ICLR 2016
  3. Mask R-CNN, ICCV 2017
  4. RAFT: Recurrent All-Pairs Field Transforms for Optical Flow, ECCV 2020
  5. Mesh R-CNN, ICCV 2019
  6. PointNet: Deep Learning on Point Sets for 3D Classification and Segmentation, CVPR 2017
  7. A Practical Model for Subsurface Light Transport, SIGGRAPH 2001
  8. Interactive Reconstruction of Monte Carlo Image Sequences using a Recurrent Denoising Autoencoder, ACM Transactions on Graphics 2017
  9. Building Rome in A Day, ACM Communications 2011
  10. KinectFusion: Real-Time Dense Surface Mapping and Tracking, International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality 2011
  11. As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Manipulation, ACM Transactions on Graphics 2005
  12. DeepMimic: Example-Guided Deep Reinforcement Learning of Physics-Based Character Skills, ACM Transactions on Graphics 2018
  13. CARLA: An Open Urban Driving Simulator, Conference on Robot Learning 2017
  14. Vision-and-Language Navigation: Interpreting Visually-Grounded Navigation Instructions in Real Environments, CVPR 2018
  15. Deep Convolutional Priors for Indoor Scene Synthesis, ACM Transactions on Graphics 2018
  16. PolyGen: An Autoregressive Generative Model of 3D Meshes, ICML 2020
  17. Hierarchical Edge Bundles: Visualization of Adjacency Relations in Hierarchical Data, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2006
  18. Polaris: A System for Query, Analysis, and Visualization of Multidimensional Relational Databases, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2002
  19. Acoustic Voxels: Computational Optimization of Modular Acoustic Filters, ACM Transactions on Graphics 2016
  20. Guided Exploration of Physically Valid Shapes for Furniture Design, ACM Transactions on Graphics 2012