Title: Semantic 3D Scene Understanding for Virtual and Augmented Reality

Advisor: Steve Seitz

Supervisory Committee: Steve Seitz (Chair), Daniela Rosner (GSR, HCDE), Brian Curless, Alexei Efros, and Sergey Levine

Abstract: Semantic 3D scene understanding is essential in applications that incorporate interaction with the 3D world such as Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR). In my talk, I will explore several prior approaches on semantic 3D scene understanding for VR/AR applications and propose a 3D scene CAD model reconstruction from single image. Given a single photo of a room and a large database of object CAD models, our goal is to reconstruct a scene that is as similar as possible to the scene depicted in the image, and composed of objects drawn from 3D shape database. My proposed work is a completely automatic system to address this IM2CAD problem that produces high quality results on challenging indoor scenes by iteratively optimizing the placement and scale of objects to best match scene renderings in simulation to the input image, using image comparison metrics trained via deep convolutional neural nets.  We also show the applicability of our method in standard scene understanding benchmarks where we obtain significant improvement.

Place: 
CSE 303
When: 
Tuesday, August 15, 2017 - 14:30 to 16:30