Please note that this schedule is subject to change, and I will be updating it regularly throughout the semester. Lecture slides are available in PDF only. Not all links will be active at once. Refer to the list of references in the course syllabus for labels used in the list of readings below.
| Week | Week of | Wednesday (11:30-12:20) @ WMC 3255 | Friday (10:30-12:20) @ RCB 7100 |
| 1 | Sep. 2 | Course Organization and Q&As (Syllabus) | Computer Graphics and Geometric Modelling in the AI Era (slides) |
| 2 | Sep. 9 | Course Introduction (slides) | Modeling Paradigm for 3D Content Creation (slides) |
| 3 | Sep. 16 | Modeling Paradigm for 3D Content Creation (slides) | 3D Shape Representations: Implicit Functions, Parametric Representations, and Fitting (slides) |
| 4 | Sep. 23 |
3D Shape Representations: Voxels, Point Clouds, and Registraion
(slides)
September 25: Assignment (20%) available |
3D Shape Representations: Meshes and Subdivision Surfaces
(slides) by Prof. Ali Mahdavi-Amiri (Readings: Chapters 1 and 2.1 - 2.3 of [Zorin 00]) |
| 5 | Sep. 30 | 3D Shape Representations: Meshes and Subdivision Surfaces (slides) by Prof. Ali Mahdavi-Amiri |
3D Shape Representations: multi-view and structured 3D representations
(slides) (Readings: Survey paper on Structure-Aware Shape Processing) |
| 6 | Oct. 7 | Neural network basics and representation learning for 3D shapes (slides) by Mingrui Zhao (TA) | Neural network basics and representation learning for 3D shapes (slides) by Mingrui Zhao (TA) |
| 7 | Oct. 14 |
Classical Surface Reconstruction
(slides)
(Readings: Paper by Hoppe and Paper by Lorensen and Cline) |
Classical Surface Reconstruction
(slides)
(Readings: Paper by Hoppe and Paper by Lorensen and Cline) |
| 8 | Oct. 21 |
Classical Surface Reconstruction
(slides)
(Readings: Paper by Hoppe and Paper by Lorensen and Cline) October 23: Assignment due in class |
Neural Surface Reconstruction
(slides)
(Readings: NMC, NDC, ARO-Net, CAPRI-Net, DPA-Net, Slice3D) |
| 9 | Oct. 28 |
Neural Surface Reconstruction
(slides)
Shape Segmentation
(slides)
|
Shape Segmentation
(slides)
(Readings: A Survey on Mesh Segmentation Techniques) |
| 10 | Nov. 4 | Course Project Introduction and Q&A (slides) by Mingrui Zhao (TA) | November 8: 90-minute midterm test |
| 11 | Nov. 11 |
Shape Correspondence
(slides)
(Readings: A Survey on Shape Correspondence) |
Shape Correspondence
(slides)
(Readings: A Survey on Shape Correspondence) |
| 12 | Nov. 18 | Learn to Generate 3D Shapes (slides) | Why is 3D GenAI Hard? (slides) |
| 13 | Nov. 25 | Introduction to 3D Printing (slides) | New geometry problems for 3D printing (slides) |