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This AI Creates Detailed 3D Renderings from Thousands of Tourist Photos
A team of researchers at Google have come up with a technique that can combine thousands of tourist photos into detailed 3D renderings that take you inside a scene... even if the original photos used vary wildly in terms of lighting or include other problematic elements like people or cars.
The tech is called "NeRF in the Wild" or "NeRF-W" because it takes Google Brain's Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) technology and applies it to "unstructured and uncontrolled photo collections" like the thousands of tourist photos used to create the demo you see below[1][2], and the samples in the video above[3].
It's basically an advanced, neural network-driven interpolation that manages to include geometric info about the scene while removing 'transient occluders' like people or cars and smoothing out changes in lighting.
[1] demo1.gif (36.75 MiB)
[2] demo2.gif (35.66 MiB)
[3] YouTube video (3m42s).
NeRF in the Wild: Neural Radiance Fields for Unconstrained Photo Collections (arXiv:2008.02268v2 [cs.CV])
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Mojibake Tengu on Sunday August 30 2020, @04:37PM (1 child)
Consider this tech applied in real wars: every observable adversary soldier possibly recorded during mass combat, and later, after the war, identified with reconstruction, and taken personally to legal responsibility for his deeds on the battlefield. Or even sooner, if taken captive.
I'd call this a karma. It'll suck to become an aggressor in future wars.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Freeman on Monday August 31 2020, @03:34PM
Assuming both states are very good at it, there's no reason why it couldn't be just as easily manufactured. Thus, unbelievable.
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