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An algorithm that recreates 3D objects from tiny 2D images

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Re: An algorithm that recreates 3D objects from tiny 2D images

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I'm very excited about the potential for extracting voxel specific or procedural generated 3D objects from a low number of 2D images - primarily with a combination of Semantic Segmentation and some form of MVS. The results of papers like this and other similar ones are great progress.

Re: An algorithm that recreates 3D objects from tiny 2D images

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Very interesting tech, though the article makes a piss poor job of explaining anything about how it works. Rendering surfaces is how literally 99.9% of 3D graphics work, not a "breakthrough" of any sorts.

The abstract is much better. At least they linked to it in the article.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.00710

Re: An algorithm that recreates 3D objects from tiny 2D images

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I'm very excited about the potential for extracting voxel specific or procedural generated 3D objects from a low number of 2D images - primarily with a combination of Semantic Segmentation and some form of MVS. The results of papers like this and other similar ones are great progress.

Seems like Google Earth is doing this yeah?

Re: An algorithm that recreates 3D objects from tiny 2D images

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Very interesting tech, though the article makes a piss poor job of explaining anything about how it works. Rendering surfaces is how literally 99.9% of 3D graphics work, not a "breakthrough" of any sorts.

I think it describes it quite well as long as you assume the problem of making a 3D model from a picture is already a solved but computationally expensive problem. That's the part it doesn't go into but that's not what this research is about. Though I think most readers will still be interested in that - I didn't know it had been solved already.

It's not making a surface mesh, it's putting voxels on the surface. Again, it doesn't make that distinction very clear up front so I guess it's not targeted at people familiar with traditional 3D surface meshing.

Re: An algorithm that recreates 3D objects from tiny 2D images

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I'm very excited about the potential for extracting voxel specific or procedural generated 3D objects from a low number of 2D images - primarily with a combination of Semantic Segmentation and some form of MVS. The results of papers like this and other similar ones are great progress.

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