Logistics
Grading Policy
Grades will be largely based on class participation, paper presentations and a final project. In addition, we will require short paper summaries submitted before class.
Paper Summaries: 30%
Presentations: 20%
Participation: 10%
Final Project: 40%
Paper Reviews
A paper review will be due before each class of student presentations. The review should be short. There can be multiple papers offered as reading material and one paper presented in each class. You need to pick one paper between them to write a review. You can write a review for more than one papers, in which case we will consider the review with the higher score for grading. The template is provided here.
Student Presentation and Panel Discussion
There will be 3 students involved in each lecture:
One student presents the paper they submitted for paper review;
The other two students debate the pros and cons of the presented paper.
Guidelines for presentation:
Read the assigned papers thoroughly and gain a good understanding before making the presentation slides.
Each presentation should be 20min (± 2min) + discussion.
Leading (15 min)
Advocate & Critic (3 & 3 min)
20 min discussion with audience
The presentations should be delivered with the following outline:
Motivation -> Problem definition (input and output) -> Related works -> Method -> Experiments (setup and results) ;
At the end of the presentation, the presenter should shortly cover the strengths and weakness of the paper.
Self-report Participation
At the end of each lecture, we provide 3 minutes to fill out and upload the form as evidence of participation.
Project
The course project aims to help the students gain in-depth, hands-on experiences in learning for 3D humans. It consists of three key milestones: a project proposal/idea pitch (5%), a milestone report with simple demos (5%), and a final report with video (30%).
We will have three presentations for each of the milestones.
The idea proposal will be peer-graded.
The students will submit a 2-page proposal and a 4-page final report (all in CVPR format).
The students will also submit a 2-minute video about their projects.
A maximum of 2 people can be teamed up. Talk to Prof. Pavlakos if there is an exceptional case.
Potential projects can have the following flavors:
Some canonical examples for potential projects can have the following flavors:
Improve an existing approach. Identify a weakness of a specific work and implement an extension/solution to that limitation.
Mix and match. Combine approaches that have been proposed before to solve a problem of larger scope.
Design your own approach. Combine approaches that have been proposed before to solve a problem of larger scope.
Some special cases:
Implement an existing approach. For these projects, you typically combine approaches that have been developed separately to address a larger and more complex problem.
Implement an existing approach on a different framework: Implement an existing approach using a different framework, e.g., jax or mlx, that has improved performance on specific hardware (i.e., TPUs and Apple silicon respectively).
Stress test existing approaches. This kind of project involves a thorough comparison of several existing approaches for a specific problem.
