EECE 5512: Introduction to Spatial Intelligence

Semesters: Spring 2027, Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024

An interdisciplinary course covering emerging immersive media, HCI, computer vision, graphics, and computer networks. In addition to lectures, the course includes experiential sessions with a variety of state-of-the-art spatial computers like AR/VR headsets and smart glasses.

• Fundamentals: computational and human spatial intelligence
• Fundamentals: visual media, spatial computers, legacy computers
• Information, digital world representations, and Internet
• 2D, flat/stereo 360, 3D and volumetric videos: RGB-D, point cloud, mesh, NeRF
• Monocular, stereoscopic, and multiview videos, and world models
• Acquiring immersive content for network delivery
• Compression for RGB, depth, point clouds, and mesh sequences
• Streaming fundamentals: stored, live, and interactive protocols
• Streaming immersive content: videos, point clouds, meshes, holograms, spaces
• Visual and wireless sensing for human motion tracking
• Building immersive systems such as 3D telepresence and spatial web applications
• Tracking eyes, hands, face, head, body; outside-in and inside-out systems
• ARKit, Unity, Open3D, Open4D, Pytorch3D, and networked AR/VR platforms

EECE 2540: Fundamentals of Computer Networks

Semesters: Spring 2026, Fall 2024