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High-Dimensional Visual Appearance: Sampling and Reconstruction

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This lecture by the instructor covers the challenges of sampling and reconstructing high-dimensional visual appearance, focusing on real-time global illumination, reflectance models, and appearance acquisition. The presentation explores the use of signal processing techniques, such as affine wavelet integrals and space-time signal processing, to efficiently acquire and render complex visual data.

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