Info for Prospective Computer Graphics Graduate Students

Recommended Study Plan

Plan well ahead - don't wait for the last minute to choose a research topic, only to discover that you lack the neccessary background.

An ideal study plan leading to a broad computer graphics background would include the following:

Undergraduate
CS234325 Computer Graphics (offered every semester)
CS234326 Computer Graphics Laboratory
Graduate
CS236373 Image Synthesis (offered every other semester)
CS236607 Digital Geometry Processing (offered every other semester)
CS236716 Computer-Aided Geometric Design (offered every other semester)
CS236719 Computational Geometry (offered every other semester)
EE049003 Visualization and Animation (offered every other semester)
CS236754 Intelligent Systems Laboratory (offered every semester)

Thesis research !! (this takes at least two semesters)

Other desirable courses are:
CS236327 Digital Image and Signal Processing
CS236873 Computer Vision
CS236861 Numerical Geometry of Images

You can see a complete list of CS courses here.

Expectations

I have great expectations from my students. They are required to perform original research, making a modest contribution to the scientific state-of-the-art. Timely work and publication are a good proof of success at this endeavor. Most of my graduate students attend at least one computer graphics conference abroad, where they present their work and meet colleagues with common interests.

Some Tips

• Make sure you are a good programmer and enjoy it. Computer graphics research, as any applied computer science work, must be implemented in order to evaluate its merit. A substantial amount of your time will be spent programming.
  
  
• It is well known that there is no better way to learn a subject than by teaching it. In fact, that is how I learnt Computer Graphics (that poor class of 1991 at Hebrew University !!). So if you feel up to it - try become a TA (teaching assistant) in one of the above courses. Apply for these positions well in advance, and be advised that only the best and the most experienced will be taken on.
  
  
• Attend research seminars and colloquia on computer graphics and related subjects, most notably the Pixel Club at the Technion, and the Israel SIGGRAPH Professional Chapter meetings in Tel Aviv.
  
  
• Browse through the computer graphics literature regularly, most notably the annual SIGGRAPH , Graphics Interface , Eurographics , Visualization , Pacific Graphics and Computer Graphics International conference proceedings. The top journals are ACM Transactions on Graphics , The Visual Computer , Computer Graphics Forum , IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics and Computers and Graphics.
  
  You can access many of these journals online thru the Technion Library. Make sure your proxy is set to wwwproxy.technion.ac.il first.
  
  
• Surf that Web ! You can start off with Computer Graphics on the Web. The SIGGRAPH Bibliography and Citeseer are also very useful.
  
  
• Keep abreast of developments in the ACM student community.