Course Schedule

The dates given in this schedule are the official due dates for all course deliverables. Please note that any of the deliverable due dates are subject to change. Any change to these due dates will be announced on Ed.

The deadlines in this course are at 12am AoE (Anywhere on Earth) on the specified day given in the schedule below. Make sure to set your timezone in Canvas so the due dates display in your local time. See here for steps on how to change the timezone in Canvas. We have noticed that Canvas may have bugs in their due date display, so please be aware of this and always double check with the below schedule. Keep in mind that when Daylight Savings Time transitions occur, the submission deadlines in your timezone will shift accordingly.

For information on how late submissions work in this course, see Section B of the Course Policies.

Complete the Course Setup right away so that you can immediately jump into Notebook 1 and Assignment 1. There are no graded deliverables for the Course Setup, but it is very important to complete it so that you become familiar with the course submission process.

FINAL EXAM window STARTS TUESDAY, 4/28 at 12am AoE, and ENDS FRIDAY, 5/1 at 12am AoE.

Week # Week Start Lessons this Week Deliverables Required Readings Optional Readings
1 1/12/2026 01-01 through 01-05
02-01 through 02-07
Complete Course Setup

Szeliski (2010) -Chapter 1, Chapters 2.2 and 2.3

Szeliski (2010) – Chapters 3.1 – 3.6

Harris & Stephens (1988)
2 1/19/2026  03-01 through 03-04 Plagiarism Quiz (due 1/20)
Notebook 1 Quiz (due 1/20)
Raskar (2009)
3 1/26/2026 04-01 through 04-06 A1: Camera Obscura (due 1/27) Burt & Adelson (1983a)
Burt & Adelson (1983b)
Efros & Freeman (2001)
Kwatra, et al. (2003)
Boykov & Jolly (2001)
Smith (1998)
Lowe (2004)
Mikolajczyk & Schmid (2001)
4 2/2/2026 05-01 through 05-03 A2: Pyramid Blending (due 2/3) Szeliski (2010) – Chapter 9.1
Beier & Neely (1992)
Brown & Lowe (2003)
5 2/9/2026 Optional:
05-07 through 05-09
A3: Panoramas (due 2/10) Criminisi, et al. (2004)
6 2/16/2026 Notebook 2 Quiz (due 2/17)
7 2/23/2026 05-04 through 05-06 Project 1 (due 2/27) Debevec & Malik (1997)
Szeliski (2010) – Chapter 10.2
Banterle, et al. (2018)
Durand & Dorsey (2002)
Grossberg & Nayar (2003)
Kushal, et al. (2012)
Reinhard, et al. (2002)
Snavely, et al. (2006)
Snavely, et al. (2007)
Ward (2001)
8 3/2/2026
9 3/9/2026 06-01 through 06-04 A4: HDR (due 3/10) Schödl, et al. (2000) Agarwala, et al. (2005)
Bai, et al. (2012)
Baker, et al. (2010)
Forssén & Ringaby (2010)
Grundmann, et al. (2011)
Grundmann, et al. (2012)
Schödl & Essa (2002)
10 3/16/2026 07-01 through 07-03 A5: Video Textures (due 3/17) Avidan & Shamir (2007)
Rubinstein, et al. (2008)
Levoy & Hanrahan (1996)
Levin, et al. (2007)
Ng, et al. (2005)
11 3/23/2026 Required Readings Notebook 3 Quiz (due 3/24) Lesson 8 Readings
12 3/30/2026
13 4/6/2026 Project 2 (due 4/10)
14 4/13/2026
15 4/20/2026 Final Portfolio (due 4/21)
16 4/27/2026 Final Exam Week Final Exam Window (4/28 – 5/1)
17 5/4/2026 End of Term (5/7)