[HN Gopher] Gaudi: A Neural Architect for Immersive 3D Scene Gen...
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       Gaudi: A Neural Architect for Immersive 3D Scene Generation
        
       Author : andsoitis
       Score  : 72 points
       Date   : 2022-08-04 15:15 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | mistrial9 wrote:
       | if this is an internal code-name OK, but this public post sounds
       | more like a product name. How is it OK to hijack the widely-known
       | artist, with no other meaning, for your commercial VR product ?
       | 
       | "Antoni Gaudi i Cornet was a Catalan architect from Spain known
       | as the greatest exponent of Catalan Modernism. Gaudi's works have
       | a highly individualized, sui generis style. Most are located in
       | Barcelona, including his main work, the church of the Sagrada
       | Familia"
        
         | LegitShady wrote:
         | 100% correct. just borrowing credibility unearned.
        
         | spywaregorilla wrote:
         | Seems more like an homage than a hijacking?
        
           | uoaei wrote:
           | It's cute, but completely tone-deaf.
        
             | spywaregorilla wrote:
             | Why?
        
         | zvr wrote:
         | Not to mention the (trademarked) Gaudi processor for ML/AI:
         | https://habana.ai/training/gaudi2/
         | 
         | Wondering whether this Gaudi software can be ported to use
         | Gaudi SDK :-)
        
         | mistrial9 wrote:
         | I am not OK with public social arts being rebranded for
         | corporate PR
        
           | cinntaile wrote:
           | It's just a homage to an architect.
        
             | yazzku wrote:
             | No it's not, it's PR bullshit.
        
         | zitterbewegung wrote:
         | There is DALLE and Inception from other groups (openai and
         | google ) . Also Big Bird and Bert. It's basically okay as long
         | as anyone would find an issue or involve lawyers at least for
         | Deep Learning researchers .
        
           | klipt wrote:
           | Dali -> DALL-E
           | 
           | Gaudi -> GAUD-E?
        
             | a9h74j wrote:
             | Speaking of which, can you take DALL-E output and feed it
             | in and get 3D art? Or maybe someday prompt-to-3D direct,
             | although the right kind of training data might not be there
             | yet.
        
         | yazzku wrote:
         | Why is this down-voted? Fuck the name appropriation for
         | corporate PR.
        
           | yazzku wrote:
           | And I get down-voted too. Apple fanboys entered the chat?
        
             | kemayo wrote:
             | Complaining about voting gets you downvoted, pretty
             | reliably. It's also against the community guidelines:
             | https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
             | 
             | EDIT: plus, I guess your second comment is insinuating
             | about brigading, which is also against said guidelines. :D
        
         | rgovostes wrote:
         | Wait until you hear what they did to McIntosh apples and Isaac
         | Newton.
        
       | yarg wrote:
       | Perhaps I'm wrong, but judging by the wibbly-wobbly walls, this
       | is well behind the state of the art when it comes to the
       | preservation of spatial invariants.
       | 
       | By comparison a lot of the more recent demos are not only capable
       | of polyframe structure preservation, but also do a very good job
       | at preserving invariants even of subjects that are moving and
       | deforming (such as a speaking human).
        
         | heyitsguay wrote:
         | Cool! Any demos you can link to?
        
       | fezfight wrote:
       | What's with the weird license? Where's the code? Looks cool,
       | otherwise.
        
       | Hnus wrote:
       | > enables conditional generation of 3D scenes from different
       | modalities like text or RGB images.
       | 
       | Please help me understand few dumb questions I have.
       | 
       | - What exactly is used as an input to generate such scenes is it
       | just few pictures or even text description?
       | 
       | - Is it able to generate data for something which was not in the
       | input? Like you have some common object in the corner of your
       | photo and its able to expand the picture as if you had it in the
       | frame in the first place?
       | 
       | - What is the end game of technologies like these? Could it be
       | one day fed lets say every piece of data google has about the
       | world like every 360 picture, every book, article, video, movie
       | and so on allowing you to take picture of something and spawning
       | infinitely walkable world looking and behaving as our reality?
       | Similar to procedurally generated video game map.
        
         | upupandup wrote:
         | i think this takes a scene, pictures or videos and reconstructs
         | a 3D scene where it recognizes entities.
         | 
         | i dont think so? it just reconstructs the space it sees but it
         | could absolutely expand to fill in the gap so to speak.
         | 
         | robotic navigation and manipulation with environment would be
         | my immediate guess. It would be able to build a complete 3D
         | version of the world and recognize objects. Your idea could be
         | a reality here as well.
         | 
         | CVPR 2022 was a very interesting year for 3D scene
         | reconstruction. One particular paper I recall was reaching into
         | a database of CAD objects and simply replacing the scene with
         | those objects that fit very close to what is shown in the
         | scene. It could mean that a robot armed with this type of
         | computer vision could manipulate with every single object it
         | sees and know exactly how to interact with it without further
         | examination.
        
       | auggierose wrote:
       | Is that a Wolfenstein texture I see there?
        
         | coolspot wrote:
         | Vizdoom dataset, yes
         | 
         | http://vizdoom.cs.put.edu.pl/
        
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