| Date | Meta-Topic | Topic | Suggested Reading | Assignments |
| WEEK 1 | ||||
| Tue 08/27/2024 | Getting situated | Introduction | ||
| Thu 08/29/2024 | Fundamentals | Image formation, Epiplar geometry | ||
| WEEK 2 | ||||
| Tue 09/03/2024 | Correspondence, Optical flow, Stereo | |||
| Thu 09/05/2024 | Structure from motion (by Bharath Hariharan) | |||
| WEEK 3 | ||||
| Tue 09/10/2024 | Demo of role-playing paper discussion | Paper discussion | BARF: Bundle-Adjusting Neural Radiance Fields | |
| Thu 09/12/2024 | Representation | Mesh, Point clouds, SDFs, etc | ||
| WEEK 4 | ||||
| Tue 09/17/2024 | Reasoning & Rendering | 3D perception, (Neural) Rendering | ||
| Thu 09/19/2024 | Rendering & Modeling | Differentiable rendering, Implicit neural nets | ||
| WEEK 5 | ||||
| Tue 09/24/2024 | Paper discussion | DeepSDF: Learning Continuous Signed Distance Functions for Shape Representation | ||
| Thu 09/26/2024 | Paper discussion | Camera as Rays: Pose Estimation via Ray Diffusion | Project Idea Due | |
| WEEK 6 | ||||
| Tue 10/01/2024 | Alignment | Localization, 6 DoF Pose estimation, SLAM | ||
| Thu 10/03/2024 | Paper discussion | DROID-SLAM: Deep Visual SLAM for Monocular, Stereo, and RGB-D Cameras | ||
| WEEK 7 | ||||
| Tue 10/08/2024 | Data & Evaluation | Images, Videos, 3D Scans, Handcrafted assets, Metrics, Human alignment | ||
| Thu 10/10/2024 | Paper discussion | SMPL: A Skinned Multi-Person Linear Model | ||
| WEEK 8 | ||||
| Tue 10/15/2024 | Fall break | No class | ||
| Thu 10/17/2024 | Guest lecture | TBA | ||
| WEEK 9 | ||||
| Tue 10/22/2024 | Novel view synthesis | Image-based rendering, LDI, MPI, NeRF | ||
| Thu 10/24/2024 | Paper discussion | 3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering | Project Proposal Due (10/28) | |
| WEEK 10 | ||||
| Tue 10/29/2024 | Learning-based 3D reconstruction | Single image depth estimation, Deep Multi-view stereo | ||
| Thu 10/31/2024 | Paper discussion | DUSt3R: Geometric 3D Vision Made Easy | ||
| WEEK 11 | ||||
| Tue 11/05/2024 | Generative models | 3D Generation, Diffusion, text-to-3D | ||
| Thu 11/07/2024 | Paper discussion | DreamFusion: Text-to-3D using Diffusion | ||
| WEEK 12 | ||||
| Tue 11/12/2024 | Final project check in | Office hour | ||
| Thu 11/14/2024 | CVPR Deadline | No class | ||
| WEEK 13 | ||||
| Tue 11/19/2024 | Applications | Self-driving | ||
| Thu 11/21/2024 | Paper discussion | UniSim: A Neural Closed-Loop Sensor Simulator | ||
| WEEK 14 | ||||
| Tue 11/26/2024 | Guest lecture | TBA | ||
| Thu 11/28/2024 | Thanksgiving | No class | ||
| WEEK 15 | ||||
| Tue 12/03/2024 | Final Project | Student Presentation | ||
| Thu 12/05/2024 | Student Presentation | |||