Modules
Syllabus
1
Foundations of 3DGS
NeRF vs 3DGS, Gaussian math, the rendering pipeline, training via differentiable rasterization, and key extensions.
2
Evaluation & Survey
Standardized metrics (PSNR, SSIM, LPIPS), benchmark datasets, and why cross-paper comparisons usually fail.
3
End-to-End Scene Reconstruction
Structure from Motion with GLOMAP, depth-prior initialization, Sparse Adam, and the full .splat binary format — from video to deployable web viewer.