3D Acquisition and Gaussian Splatting

Introduction

Course slides (PDF)

Structure from Motion

COLMAP tutorial page that goes through all reconstruction steps ❤️
https://colmap.github.io/tutorial.html
MeshRoom, an open source node-based visual programming toolbox
https://meshroom.org/index.php/download/
General introduction to SIFT from the silx software library
https://www.silx.org/doc/silx/latest/description/sift.html

Photogrammetry

Unity Photogrammetry Workflow handbook
https://unity3d.com/files/solutions/photogrammetry/Unity-Photogrammetry-Workflow_2017-07_v2.pdf
Surface Reconstruction, graduate school lecture by Pierre Alliez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWlo7PvtQVw
RealityScan (ex-RealityCapture), a photogrammetry software now owned by Epic Games
https://www.realityscan.com/

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs)

News site and newsletter about radiance fields in general
https://radiancefields.com/
Neural Radiance Fields from scratch by Luc Frachon
https://medium.com/@luc.frachon/neural-radiance-fields-from-scratch-part-i-3a340e2980db
Interactive browser demo of NeRFs baked into a grid representation
https://phog.github.io/snerg/#demos
Interactive browser demo of streamable, partitioned NeRFs
https://smerf-3d.github.io/#demos

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS)

Community gallery that comes with a great splats viewer and editor ❤️
https://superspl.at/
3D Gaussian Splatting Introduction and Paper Explanation
https://learnopencv.com/3d-gaussian-splatting/
Optimized splats rendering in Spark 2.0
https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/spark-2.0

Gaussian Splatting in Depth

Course slides (PDF)

Awesome 3D Gaussian Splatting by MrNeRF
https://github.com/MrNeRF/awesome-3D-gaussian-splatting
nerfstudio, an open source project that also handles Gaussian Splatting ❤️
https://docs.nerf.studio/
LichtFeld Studio, open source software for GS optimization and editing
https://lichtfeld.io/
Jawset Postshot, which is now commercial but provides Unreal Engine integration
https://www.jawset.com/
Keynote on the history and future of Gaussian Splatting, Enzo Tartaglione
https://partage.imt.fr/index.php/s/xsPMyJbAE7ywmWb

Research Avenues for Gaussian Splatting

Course slides (PDF)

Group Projects

These projects are designed to explore different aspects of gaussian splats and how to integrate them in production workflows. Please return a ZIP archive that contains all code necessary to run your experiments, and a short but illustrated report that answers the successive questions.