Date	Topic	Deliverables	Reading
2026-08-24	Introduction and course overview; Reconstruction, Recognition and Synthesis problems
2026-08-26	Recognition : Image classification ; Machine Learning ; Machine learning pipelines ; Neural Networks		Szeliski 5.1-5.3, FoCV - Section III
2026-08-31	Recognition : Network architectures : Convolutional Networks ; Transformers		Szeliski 5.4 and 5.5, FoCV - Section VII
2026-09-02	Recognition : The data problem : Transfer learning ; Prompt-tuning ; Semi-supervised learning ; Contrastive learning		FoCV - Section IX, 30 and Section X
2026-09-09	Recognition : Object Detection		See linked papers
2026-09-14	Recognition : Semantic Segmentation : Problem Statement ; Architectures and training pipelines ; Dense CRFs and Graph-based segmentation		See linked papers
2026-09-16	Recognition : Structured Prediction ; Pose estimation		See linked papers
2026-09-21	Recognition : Open-world recognition ; Vision-language models ; CLIP		FoCV - Section XIII, 51, see linked papers
2026-09-23	Recognition : Captioning ; Dense Captioning ; Scene Graphs ; Question-answering ; multimodal language models	HW 1 released, PA 1 released	See linked papers
2026-09-28	Buffer
2026-09-30	Synthesis : The generative modeling problem ; Technical Challenges		FoCV - Section IX, 31, see linked papers
2026-10-05	Synthesis : Neural networks for generation ; GANs		FoCV - Section IX, see linked papers
2026-10-07	Synthesis : VAEs ; diffusion models; conditional generation ; controllable generation		See linked papers
2026-10-14	Reconstruction : Image Formation Geometry and Physics		Szeliski - Ch. 2, FoCV - Section II
2026-10-19	Reconstruction : Classical 3D Reconstruction pipelines; Camera Calibration ; Triangulation		Szeliski - 11.1, 11.2, FoCV - Section XI, ch. 38-41
2026-10-21	Reconstruction : Epipolar Constraint ; Structure From Motion		Szeliski - 11.3 - 11.5, FoCV - Section XI, ch. 44
2026-10-26	Reconstruction : Estimating Correspondences ; RANSAC ; Colmap		Szeliski - 11.3 - 11.5, FoCV - Section XI, ch. 44
2026-10-28	Reconstruction : Implicit representations of shape; Introducing novel view synthesis ; Radiance ; Neural Radiance fields intro	HW 2 released, PA 2 released	FoCV - Section XI, ch. 45, see linked papers.
2026-11-02	Reconstruction via synthesis
2026-11-04	Buffer
2026-11-09	Videos : Optical flow ; Motion estimation ; Point tracking ; 4D Reconstruction		Szeliski 9, FoCV - Section XII
2026-11-11	Videos : Recognition ; Object tracking ; Video understanding
2026-11-16	Embodied computer vision ; VLAs ; World Models
2026-11-18	Computer Vision for Science
2026-11-23	Open challenges in computer vision
2026-11-30	Miscellaneous topics
2026-12-02	Review	Take-home exam released