Undergraduate Courses

CSE 450: Animation Production Seminar Open to all students who have an interest in digital animation. Reviews and analyzes films, animated feature films, and television commercials. Emphasizes the technical and aesthetic basics of animation production in industry studio environments.
CSE 455: Computer Vision Introduction to image analysis and interpreting the 3D world from image data. Topics may include segmentation, motion estimation, image mosaics, 3D-shape reconstruction, object recognition, and image retrieval. Prerequisite: CSE 333; CSE 332; recommended: MATH 208; STAT 391.
CSE 456: Story Design For Computer Animation Animation principles and production for story development and design. Design, development, and production of several storyreels, which are a tool for the pre-production of animated features and shorts. Student use authoring tools to present finished work.
CSE 457: Computer Graphics Introduction to computer image synthesis, modeling, and animation. Topics may include visual perception, displays and framebuffers, image processing, affine and projective transformations, hierarchical modeling, hidden surface elimination, shading, ray-tracing, anti-aliasing, texture mapping, curves, surfaces, particle systems, dynamics, character animation, and animation principles. Prerequisite: CSE 333; CSE 332; recommended: CSE 312; MATH 208.
CSE 458: Computer Animation Introduction to basic principles of computer generated animation. Focus on the modeling and lighting of animated characters. Students from art, CSE, and music team up on projects to be built on commercially-available modeling and lighting packages. Prerequisite: CSE 457; recommended: instructor permission.
CSE 459: Pre-production For Collaborative Animation Pre-production of collaboratively designed animated shorts. In-depth analysis of classical and computer generated works. Character design and pre-planning, model sheets, character rigging, storyreel and animatics, character motion, design for multiple characters, and principles of animation as applied to character motion and effects. Prerequisite: CSE 458.
CSE 460: Animation Capstone Apply the knowledge gained in previous animation courses to produce a short animated film. Topics include scene planning, digital cinematography, creature and hard surface modeling, animatics and basics of character animation, and rendering techniques. Prerequisite: CSE 458, CSE 459.
CSE 464: Advanced Topics In Digital Animation Students design individual animated works for professional quality demo reels. 2- and 3-D animatics, special effects design, advanced character animation techniques, 3-D paint techniques and integration, short design, sequence planning, non-photorealistic rendering options, interactive animation for pre-planning, and advanced production techniques and strategies. Recommended: CSE 458.

Professional (Evening) Courses

CSEP 557: Current Trends In Computer Graphics Introduction to computer image synthesis, modeling, and animation emphasizing the state-of-the-art algorithm applications. Topics may include visual perception, image processing, geometric transformations, hierarchical modeling, hidden-surface elimination, shading, ray-tracing, anti-aliasing, texture mapping, curves, surfaces, particle systems, dynamics, realistic character animation, and traditional animation principles. Prerequisite: CSE majors only.
CSEP 576: Computer Vision Provides an overview of computer vision, emphasizing the middle ground between image processing and artificial intelligence. Image formation, pre-attentive image processing, boundary and region representations, and case studies of vision architectures.

Graduate Courses

CSE 512: Data Visualization Techniques and algorithms for creating effective visualizations based on principles from graphic design, visual art, perceptual psychology and cognitive science. Topics: data and image models, visual encoding, graphical perception, color, animation, interaction techniques, graph layout, automated design. Lectures, reading and project. Prerequisites: CSE 332 or 373 or equivalent.
CSE 557: Computer Graphics Introduction to image synthesis and computer modeling, emphasizing the underlying theory required for undertaking computer graphics research. Topics include color theory, image processing, affine and projective geometry, hidden-surface determination, photorealistic image synthesis, advanced curve and surface design, dynamics, realistic character animation. Prerequisite: CSE major, solid knowledge of linear algebra.
CSE 576: Computer Vision Overview of computer vision, emphasizing the middle ground between image processing and artificial intelligence. Image formation, preattentive image processing, boundary and region representations, and case studies of vision architectures. Prerequisite: Solid knowledge of linear algebra, good programming skills, CSE or E E major or permission of instructor. Offered: jointly with E E 576.
CSE 577: Special Topics In Computer Vision Topics vary and may include vision for graphics, probabilistic vision and learning, medical imaging, content-based image and video retrieval, robot vision, or 3D object recognition. Prerequisite: CSE/E E 576 or permission of instructor. Offered: jointly with E E 577.
CSE 581: Computer Ethics Ethical and philosophical approaches to thinking critically about computing technology. Tools and strategies for considering unintended consequences. Responsibilities of computer science researchers and practitioners. Application to various technology areas.