Nvidia built an AI that creates 3D models from 2D images
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Nvidia built an AI that creates 3D models from 2D images
What if developing a 3D gaming world were as easy as snapping pics with your phone? Nvidia researchers recently developed an AI system capable of predicting a complete 3D model from any 2D image.
Called "DIB-R," the AI takes a picture of any 2D object – an image of a bird, for example – and predicts what it would look like in three dimensions. This prediction includes lighting, texture, and depth.
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DIB-R stands for differentiable interpolation-based renderer, meaning it combines what it "sees," a 2D image, and makes inferences based on a 3D "understanding" of the world. This is strikingly similar to how humans translate the 2D input from our eyes into a 3D mental image.
According to Nvidia, this research has numerous implications for the field of robotics:
For an autonomous robot to interact safely and efficiently with its environment, it must be able to sense and understand its surroundings. DIB-R could potentially improve those depth perception capabilities.
With further development the researchers hope to expand DIB-R to include functionality that would essentially