“I wasn’t sure how much space there was for generation, but I’ve seen a lot of really clever ways of using 3D generation to solve scientific problems,” she tells us. “I had always thought of 3D reconstruction for science as faithfully reconstructing something that already exists, but in one paper, they were generating pieces for an aircraft and trying out different things. Being able to generate very fast allowed them to solve that more quickly. I’m excited to explore applying this generative technique to other areas!” Marissa also spotted a trend for more physics-informed reconstruction. “That’s one of the interesting things about scientific applications,” she continues. “When you know the application, sometimes you can cheat a little. You have some extra priors and information that can improve your reconstruction. I love those papers as well.” Time has been reserved toward the end of the workshop for everyone to engage in open-ended discussion on making tools more useful for scientists, strategies for sharing them more effectively, and identifying some common research goals. The workshop perfectly encapsulates Marissa’s thesis work, which spans 3D reconstruction for science. “We have a reconstruction to physics pipeline,” she explains. “I work on a large-scale PDE solver at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and also work on some reconstruction methods. The idea is, could you go from images to physics all in one go?” Through her conversations with scientists, Marissa has discovered why many are not embracing some of the newer methods in 3D reconstruction. It often boils down to one thing: trust. “That led me down a work of looking into uncertainty in 3D reconstruction,” she reveals. “That’s also something I focus on. How can we communicate the accuracy of these models to encourage more scientists to use them?” To learn more about this topic, you are all invited to attend the Workshop on 3D Geometry Generation for Scientific Computing this afternoon at 13:0017:00 (Naupaka VII). You can also head to invited speaker Emma “Mickey” MacKie’s webpage for a preview on what she will be talking about. 6 DAILY WACV Sunday Workshop
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