ERC Advanced Grant · 2019
SIMULACRON: From Camera Observations to Physical Simulations of the 3D World
Despite their amazing success, we believe that computer vision algorithms have only scratched the surface in terms of understanding our world from images. While most research on 3D reconstruction has been concerned with recovering the surface geometry and reflectance, SIMULACRON is focused on inferring the underlying physics (masses, elasticity, momenta, forces, etc.) and a simulation of the observed action directly from videos. This not only provides a more profound understanding of the observed phenomena, but it also allows us to interpolate and extrapolate complex actions far beyond the observation: The inferred physical simulation can be employed for space-time super-resolution and for…
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