This schedule is preliminary and subject to change as the term evolves.

Lecture	Date	Topic	Suggested Reading	Assignments
WEEK 1
1	Tue 08/26/2025	Introduction		Assignment 0 Out
2	Thu 08/28/2025	3D Representations I
WEEK 2
3	Tue 09/02/2025	3D Representations II		Assignment 0 Due Assignment 1 Out
4	Thu 09/04/2025	Image Formation		Assignment 0 Due Assignment 1 Out
	Fri 09/05/2025	PyTorch3D Tutorial (Smith 200, 2-3pm)	colab notebook
WEEK 3
5	Tue 09/09/2025	Single-view 3D: History + 2.5D	Depth Map Prediction from a Single Image using a Multi-Scale Deep Network Towards Robust Monocular Depth Estimation: Mixing Datasets for Zero-shot Cross-dataset Transfer Repurposing Diffusion-Based Image Generators for Monocular Depth Estimation
6	Thu 09/11/2025	Single-view 3D: Objects	Learning a predictable and generative vector representation for objects Occupancy Networks: Learning 3D Reconstruction in Function Space AtlasNet: A Papier-Mâché Approach to Learning 3D Surface Generation
WEEK 4
7	Tue 09/16/2025	Single-view 3D: Humans, Hands, and Animals	SMPL: A Skinned Multi-Person Linear Model Embodied Hands: Modeling and Capturing Hands and Bodies Together End-to-end Recovery of Human Shape and Pose DOVE: Learning Deformable 3D Objects by Watching Videos
8	Thu 09/18/2025	Single-view 3D: Scenes Projects: Selection and Timeline		Assignment 1 Due Assignment 2 Out
WEEK 5
9	Tue 09/23/2025	Volume Rendering	Volume Rendering Digest
10	Thu 09/25/2025	Neural Radiance Fields	NeRF: Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis
WEEK 6
11	Tue 09/30/2025	Neural Implicit Surfaces	Multiview Neural Surface Reconstruction by Disentangling Geometry and Appearance Volume Rendering of Neural Implicit Surfaces NeuS: Learning Neural Implicit Surfaces by Volume Rendering for Multi-view Reconstruction Objects as volumes: A stochastic geometry view of opaque solids
12	Thu 10/02/2025	Differentiable Primitive Rendering (Triangles, Gaussians)		Assignment 2 Due Assignment 3 Out
WEEK 7
13	Tue 10/07/2025	Surface Rendering: BRDFs	NeRS: Neural Reflectance Surfaces for Sparse-view 3D Reconstruction in the Wild PhySG: Inverse Rendering with Spherical Gaussians for Physics-based Material Editing and Relighting
14	Thu 10/09/2025	Distilling 3D from 2D Diffusion	DreamFusion: Text-to-3D using 2D Diffusion Score Jacobian Chaining: Lifting Pretrained 2D Diffusion Models for 3D Generation Zero-1-to-3: Zero-shot One Image to 3D Object	Project Proposals Due
WEEK 8 - Fall Break
WEEK 9
15	Tue 10/21/2025	Generative 3D Modeling	Learning a Probabilistic Latent Space of Object Shapes via 3D Generative-Adversarial Modeling AutoSDF: Shape Priors for 3D Completion, Reconstruction and Generation pi-GAN: Periodic Implicit Generative Adversarial Networks for 3D-Aware Image Synthesis
16	Thu 10/23/2025	Sparse View 3D and View Synthesis I	ViewFormer: NeRF-free Neural Rendering from Few Images Using Transformers SparseFusion: Distilling View-conditioned Diffusion for 3D Reconstruction ReconFusion: 3D Reconstruction with Diffusion Priors	Assignment 3 Due Assignment 4 Out
WEEK 10
17	Tue 10/28/2025	Sparse View 3D and View Synthesis II
18	Thu 10/30/2025	Learning 3D from Multi-view
WEEK 11
	Tue 11/04/2025	No Class (Democracy Day)
19	Thu 11/06/2025	Point Clouds I	PointNet: Deep Learning on Point Sets for 3D Classification and Segmentation Point Transformer Vector Neurons: A General Framework for SO(3)-Equivariant Networks 4D Spatio-Temporal ConvNets: Minkowski Convolutional Neural Networks	Assignment 4 Due Assignment 5 Out
WEEK 12
20	Tue 11/11/2025	Point Clouds II	Frustum PointNets for 3D Object Detection from RGB-D Data Deep Hough Voting for 3D Object Detection in Point Clouds
21	Thu 11/13/2025	Modeling 3D in Time	Neural Scene Flow Fields for Space-Time View Synthesis of Dynamic Scenes Nerfies: Deformable Neural Radiance Fields
WEEK 13
22	Tue 11/18/2025	Guest Lecture I (3D Detection)
23	Thu 11/20/2025	Guest Lecture II (3D + Robotics)		Assignment 5 Due
WEEK 14
24	Tue 11/25/2025	Conclusion
	Thu 11/27/2025	Thanksgiving
WEEK 15
25	Tue 12/02/2025	Poster Presentations: I
26	Thu 12/04/2025	Poster Presentations: II
WEEK 16
	Thu 12/11/2025			Project Reports Due