| Instructor: | Mallesham Dasari |
| Office: | 650D EXP Building |
| Class Times: | TuFr 9:50AM-11:30AM |
| Class Room: | Room 129, Forsyth Building |
| Office Hours: | WedTh 4:00PM-5:00PM; also on Appointment or open doors |
| Contact: | m.dasari@northeastern.edu |
| Date | Topics | Lecture slides & Readings | Notes |
| 01/09 | Introduction, networked applications, properties, basics of XR systems. | Lecture Slides | |
| 01/12 | XR headsets, internals, hardware, software, and tools. | Lecture Slides , Open3D basics. | Homework1 out. Due 01/22. |
| 01/16 | Sensors, cameras, depth sensors, lidars, sensing, algorithms. | Lecture Slides | |
| 01/19 | 3D data structures, point clouds, depth maps, geometric meshes, neural representations, mono, stereo, and multiview. | Lecture Slides | |
| 01/23 | Capturing 3D data for network transmission, outside-in and inside-out capture, latency and bandwidth trade-offs. | Lecture Slides | |
| 01/26 | Compression fundamentals, 2D video compression. | Lecture Slides | |
| 01/30 | Depth map compression, adopting 2D video codecs, standalone depth compression. | Lecture Slides , Depth compression methods based on standard video codecs. | Homework2 out. Due 02/12. |
| 02/02 | Point cloud compression, MPEG VPCC, GPCC. | Lecture Slides | |
| 02/06 | Geometric mesh compression, Draco, Inter-frame mesh compression. | Lecture Slides | |
| 02/09 | Machine learning advances in compression. | Lecture Slides | |
| 02/13 | Class canceld due winter storm. | ||
| 02/16 | Streaming fundamentals, on-demand, conference calls, live broadcasting. | Lecture Slides | |
| 02/20 | 2D video streaming, adaptive bitrate algorithms. | Lecture Slides | Homework3 out. Due 03/01. |
| 02/23 | 360-degree video streaming. | Lecture Slides | Project idea due. |
| 02/27 | Point cloud streaming, point cloud quality metrics, adaptive algorithms. | Lecture Slides | |
| 03/01 | Mesh streaming, decimation, mesh quality metrics, adaptive algorithms. | Lecture Slides | |
| 03/05 | Spring break, No class | ||
| 03/08 | Spring break, No class | ||
| 03/12 | Progressive transmission of XR content. | Lecture Slides | Homework4 out. Due 03/21. |
| 03/15 | XR Experiences Session | ||
| 03/19 | Class in and about Metaverse. | ||
| 03/22 | Instructor out of town, No class | ||
| 03/26 | Rendering basics, Real time rendering, Performance, Rendering offloading. | Lecture Slides | |
| 03/29 | Edge rendering, local streaming, WiFi, mmWave, THz, optical links, challenges and opportunities. | Lecture Slides | |
| 04/02 | Hybrid rendering, optimal scheduling, WebRTC. | Lecture Slides | Project midterm evaluation. |
| 04/05 | Tracking Fundamentals: Eye tracking, head tracking, outside-in, inside-out tracking | Lecture Slides | |
| 04/09 | Tracking Fundamentals: Hand tracking, full body tracking, face tracking | Lecture Slides | |
| 04/12 | RF Tracking, sensor fusion for tracking, RF, Visual and IMU sensor fusion. | Lecture Slides | |
| 04/16 | Instructor out of town, No class | ||
| 04/19 | Advances in neural rendering, implicit representations for XR systems. | Lecture Slides | |
| 04/26 | Final project submission. |
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