CS 6501 3D Computer Vision (Fall 2025)

University of Virginia

Schedule

This schedule is tentative and may be adjusted as the semester progresses.

Lecture	Date	Topic	Lecture Format	Background or Paper Reading
WEEK 1
1	Wed 08/27/2025	Introduction	Lecture (pdf)
WEEK 2
2	Mon 09/01/2025	A Brief History of Computer Vision	Lecture (pdf)	Background reading Chapter 1, Szeliski's book. Computer vision: the last 50 years by Linda Shapiro History of computer vision by Svetlana Lazebnik
3	Wed 09/03/2025	Machine Learning Basics	Lecture (pdf)	Background reading Chapter 5, Szeliski's book.
WEEK 3
4	Mon 09/08/2025	Image Formation	Lecture (pdf)	Background reading Chapter 2, Szeliski's book.
5	Wed 09/10/2025	Multiview Geometry	Lecture (pdf)	Background reading Structure-from-Motion Revisited Chapter 11, Szeliski's book.
WEEK 4
6	Mon 09/15/2025	NeRF: Neural Radiance Fields	Lecture (pdf)	Background reading NeRF: Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance ... Volume Rendering Digest (for NeRF) Multiview CNN DeepSDF
7	Wed 09/17/2025	Differentiable Primitive Rendering	Lecture (pdf)	Background reading 3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time ... Rendering Accelerating 3D Deep Learning with PyTorch3D
WEEK 5
8	Mon 09/22/2025	Correspondence, Correspondence, Correspondence!	Discussion (Introduction)	Paper reading SuperPoint: Self-Supervised Interest Point Detection and ... SuperGlue: Learning Feature Matching with Graph Neural ...
9	Wed 09/24/2025	Dense Pixel Tracking	Discussion (Introduction)	Tracking Everything Everywhere All at Once AllTracker: Efficient Dense Point Tracking at High Resolution
WEEK 6
10	Mon 09/29/2025	Project Proposal Presentation	Presentation
10	Wed 10/01/2025	Project Proposal Presentation	Presentation
WEEK 7
11	Mon 10/06/2025	Single-view 2.5D Prediction	Discussion (Introduction)	Paper reading Rethinking Inductive Biases for Surface Normal Estimation MoGe: Unlocking Accurate ... Training Supervision
12	Wed 10/08/2025	Learning-based 3D Reconstruction	Discussion (Introduction)	Paper reading DUSt3R: Geometric 3D Vision Made Easy TRELLIS: Structured 3D ... Versatile 3D Generation
WEEK 8
13	Mon 10/13/2025	No lecture due to Fall Reading Days		Project Proposal Abstract due
14	Wed 10/15/2025	Datasets for 3D	Discussion (Introduction)	Paper reading Objaverse: A Universe of Annotated 3D Objects ScanNet++: A High-Fidelity Dataset of 3D Indoor Scenes
WEEK 9
15	Mon 10/20/2025	3D Prediction without 3D Supervision	Discussion (Introduction)	Paper reading Learning Category-Specific ... from Image Collections No Pose at All: Self-Supervised ... from Sparse Views
16	Wed 10/22/2025	3D Recognition in Point Clouds	Discussion (Introduction)	Paper reading PointNet: Deep Learning on ... and Segmentation Point Transformer V3: Simpler, Faster, Stronger
WEEK 10
17	Mon 10/27/2025	3D Recognition from 2D Images	Discussion (Introduction)	Paper reading Omni3D: A Large Benchmark ... for 3D Object Detection Mesh R-CNN
18	Wed 10/29/2025	3D Representation Learning	Discussion (Introduction)	Paper reading Sonata: Self-Supervised Learning ... Representations CroCo: Self-Supervised Pre-training for 3D Vision Tasks ...
WEEK 11
19	Mon 11/03/2025	Generative 3D Models (lecture canceled!)	Discussion (Introduction)	Paper reading MeshAnything: Artist-Created Mesh ... Transformers CAST: Component-Aligned 3D Scene Reconstruction ...
19	Wed 11/05/2025	Generative 3D Models	Discussion (Introduction)	Paper reading MeshAnything: Artist-Created Mesh ... Transformers CAST: Component-Aligned 3D Scene Reconstruction ...
WEEK 12
20	Mon 11/10/2025	Distilling 3D from 2D Models	Discussion	Project Mid-term Report due Paper reading DreamFusion: Text-to-3D using 2D Diffusion CAT4D: Create Anything in 4D with ... Diffusion Models
21	Wed 11/12/2025	Modeling 3D in Time	Discussion	Paper reading Shape of Motion: 4D Reconstruction from a Single Video SpatialTrackerV2: 3D Point Tracking Made Easy
WEEK 13
22	Mon 11/17/2025	Learning to reconstruct 4D	Discussion	Paper reading MonST3R: A Simple Approach ... Presence of Motion Continuous 3D Perception Model with Persistent State
23	Wed 11/19/2025	3D Meets Robotics + Conclusion	Discussion	Paper reading 3D Diffusion Policy: Generalizable Visuomotor Policy ...
WEEK 14
25	Mon 11/24/2025	No lecture - Work on Final Projects
26	Wed 11/26/2025	No lecture due to Thanksgiving Recess
WEEK 15
27	Mon 12/01/2025	No lecture - Work on Final Projects
28	Wed 12/03/2025	No lecture - Work on Final Projects
WEEK 16
29	Mon 12/08/2025	Final Project Presentations	Presentation
30	Wed 12/10/2025	Final Project Presentations	Presentation
FINAL WEEK
	Mon 12/15/2025			Project Final Report Due