Reading materials

In addition to the lectures and handouts (distributed after each lecture), you will find relevant topics discussed in great details in the following materials.

• D. Cherney et al. Linear Algebra. 2013
• R. Hartley and A. Zisserman. Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision. Second Edition. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
• D. Forsyth and J. Ponce. Computer Vision: A Modern Approach. Second Edition. Pearson, 2012.
• R. Hartley and P. Strum. Triangulation. Computer vision and image understanding. 1997.
• B. Horn. Recovering baseline and orientation from essential matrix. 1990
• Y. Furukawa and J. Ponce. Accurate, Dense, and Robust Multiview Stereopsis. PAMI, 2010
• Y. Yao et al. MVSNet: Depth Inference for Unstructured Multi-view Stereo. ECCV, 2018
• H. Hoppe, et al. Surface reconstruction from unorganized points. SIGGRAPH, 1992
• M. Kazhdan et al. Poisson surface reconstruction. SPG, 2006
• L. Nan and P. Wonka. PolyFit: Polygonal Surface Reconstruction from Point Clouds. ICCV, 2017

Programming resources and tools

C++ Tutorials

• C++ Tutorial A: http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/
• C++ Tutorial B: https://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/c++-tutorial.html/
• C++ Tutorial C: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/cplusplus/index.htm/

Recommended IDEs (Integrated Development Environment)

• CLion (all platforms) – free for students and university staffs
• Microsoft Visual Studio (Windows only) – Community version is free

Light-weight libraries for 3D data structures, visualization, and processing

• Easy3D: A lightweight, easy-to-use, and efficient C++ library for processing and rendering 3D data

Open-source software for SfM and MVS

• COLMAP: a general-purpose Structure-from-Motion (SfM) and Multi-View Stereo (MVS) pipeline with a graphical and command-line interface
• MVStudio: an integrated SfM (Structure from Motion) and MVS (Multi-View Stereo) solution
• openMVG: open Multiple View Geometry library for 3D computer vision and Structure from Motion

Build a C++ program from source code

• New to C++ programming? Please read How to build a C++ program from its source code.
• More details about How to Build a CMake-based Project.

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