CS 6501 3D Computer Vision (Fall 2026)

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 08/26/2026	Introduction	Lecture (pdf)
WEEK 2
2	Mon 08/31/2026	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 09/02/2026	Machine Learning Basics	Lecture (pdf)	Background reading Chapter 5, Szeliski's book.
WEEK 3
4	Mon 09/07/2026	Image Formation (I)	Lecture (pdf)	Background reading Chapter 2, Szeliski's book.
5	Wed 09/09/2026	Image Formation (II)	Lecture (pdf)	Background reading Chapter 2, Szeliski's book.
WEEK 4
6	Mon 09/14/2026	Multiview Geometry (I)	Lecture (pdf)	Background reading Structure-from-Motion Revisited Chapter 11, Szeliski's book.
7	Wed 09/16/2026	Multiview Geometry (II)	Lecture (pdf)	Background reading Structure-from-Motion Revisited Chapter 11, Szeliski's book.
WEEK 5
8	Mon 09/21/2026	NeRF: Neural Radiance Fields	Lecture	Background reading NeRF: Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance ... Volume Rendering Digest (for NeRF) Multiview CNN DeepSDF
9	Wed 09/23/2026	Differentiable Primitive Rendering	Lecture	Background reading 3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time ... Rendering Accelerating 3D Deep Learning with PyTorch3D
WEEK 6
10	Mon 09/28/2026	Project Proposal Presentation	Presentation
11	Wed 09/30/2026	Project Proposal Presentation	Presentation
WEEK 7
12	Mon 10/05/2026	No lecture due to Fall Reading Days
13	Wed 10/07/2026	Correspondence	Discussion	Paper reading LoFTR: Detector-Free Local Feature Matching with Transformers LightGlue: Local Feature Matching at Light Speed
WEEK 8
14	Mon 10/12/2026	Tracking	Discussion	Project Proposal Abstract due Paper reading CoTracker3: Simpler and Better Point Tracking by Pseudo-Labelling Real Videos D4RT: Efficiently Reconstructing Dynamic Scenes One D4RT at a Time
15	Wed 10/14/2026	Depth	Discussion	Paper reading Depth Pro: Sharp Monocular Metric Depth in Less Than a Second Depth Anything 3: Recovering the Visual Space from Any Views
WEEK 9
16	Mon 10/19/2026	Reconstruction	Discussion	Paper reading VGGT: Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer MapAnything: Universal Feed-Forward Metric 3D Reconstruction
17	Wed 10/21/2026	3D Datasets	Discussion	Paper reading uCO3D: UnCommon Objects in 3D Objaverse: A Universe of Annotated 3D Objects
WEEK 10
18	Mon 10/26/2026	Reconstruction without 3D Supervision	Discussion	Paper reading RayZer: A Self-supervised Large View Synthesis Model WildRayZer: Self-supervised Large View Synthesis in Dynamic Environments
19	Wed 10/28/2026	Point Representations	Discussion	Paper reading Point Transformer V3: Simpler, Faster, Stronger Sonata: Self-Supervised Learning of Reliable Point Representations
WEEK 11
20	Mon 11/02/2026	3D SSL	Discussion	Paper reading Concerto: Joint 2D-3D Self-Supervised Learning Emerges Spatial Representations Utonia: Toward One Encoder for All Point Clouds
21	Wed 11/04/2026	3D Understanding	Discussion	Paper reading SAM 3D: 3Dfy Anything in Images LocateAnything3D: Vision-Language 3D Detection with Chain-of-Sight
WEEK 12
22	Mon 11/09/2026	Spatial Reasoning	Discussion	Project Mid-term Report due Paper reading Thinking in Space: How Multimodal Large Language Models See, Remember, and Recall Spaces SpatialReasoner: Towards Explicit and Generalizable 3D Spatial Reasoning
23	Wed 11/11/2026	3D Generation	Discussion	Paper reading TRELLIS: Structured 3D Latents for Scalable and Versatile 3D Generation TRELLIS.2: Native and Compact Structured Latents for 3D Generation
WEEK 13
24	Mon 11/16/2026	Geometry & Video Diffusion	Discussion	Paper reading GeometryCrafter: Consistent Geometry Estimation for Open-world Videos with Diffusion Priors Geometry Forcing: Marrying Video Diffusion and 3D Representation for Consistent World Modeling
25	Wed 11/18/2026	Modeling 3D in Time	Discussion	Paper reading 4DGT: Learning a 4D Gaussian Transformer Using Real-World Monocular Videos MotionCrafter: Dense Geometry and Motion Reconstruction with a 4D VAE
WEEK 14
26	Mon 11/23/2026	4D Reconstruction	Discussion	Paper reading Any4D: Unified Feed-Forward Metric 4D Reconstruction Point4Cast: Streaming Dynamic Scene Reconstruction and Forecasting
27	Wed 11/25/2026	No lecture due to Thanksgiving Recess
WEEK 15
28	Mon 11/30/2026	3D Meets Robotics + Conclusion	Discussion	Paper reading SpatialVLA: Exploring Spatial Representations for Visual-Language-Action Model SaPaVe: Towards Active Perception and Manipulation in Vision-Language-Action Models for Robotics
29	Wed 12/02/2026	Final Project Presentations	Presentation
WEEK 16
30	Mon 12/07/2026	Final Project Presentations	Presentation
FINAL WEEK
	Mon 12/14/2026			Project Final Report Due