Is it better to take a class on 3D understanding, or a course on the physics of visual appearance?

The former course talks about: Explicit, Implicit, and Neural 3D Representations, Differentiable Rendering, Single-view 3D Prediction: Objects, Scenes, and Humans, Neural Rendering, Multi-view 3D Inference: Radiance Fields, Multi-plane Images, Implicit Surfaces, etc., Generative 3D Models, Shape Abstraction, Mesh and Point cloud processing.

The second course talks about more physics and optics stuff, like principles pf photometry, light fields, reflection, refraction, polarization, caustics, lighting and shadows, BRDFs, vision in bad weather, and applications in aerial, underwater, medical, and microscopic imaging.

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