CVPR Daily - Thursday

The Frontiers of Monocular 3D Perception workshop will consider challenges and opportunities that are at the frontier of 3D reasoning from monocular vision input , which is the main sensing modality common to mobile phones, robots, and cars . It will focus on 3D perception of scenes and objects directly from images and videos, which is an area of research that the team at TRI have spent a great deal of time investigating. They are ready to share with the community the culmination of two or three years of in-depth knowledge and research. “ The main theme of the workshop is to identify, characterize and investigate how to go beyond the current limitations of monocular 3D perception, ” Rares explains. “ There is exciting new work being done in this area by many other labs in academia and industry. We’ll be discussing research approaches for 3D tasks using a single RGB camera, such as monocular depth estimation, but we also want to challenge the benefits of monocular methods versus the alternatives, such as stereo or LiDAR. 14 DAILY CVPR Thursday Workshop Vitor Guizilini and Rares Ambrus are Senior Research Scientists with Toyota Research Institute (TRI) in the machine learning team. Igor Vasiljevic is a fourth-year PhD student at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC) and an intern at TRI. They are three of the organizers of the Frontiers of Monocular 3D Perception workshop and speak to us ahead of their half-day workshop on Friday. Rares Ambrus Vitor Guizilini Igor Vasiljevic Visualization of the DDAD dataset, (open-sourced), the benchmark used for the challenge