AI Creates 3D Models of Objects from Single Photos - Even When Partially Hidden by Hands

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Overview

• HORT is a transformer-based model for 3D reconstruction of objects held in hands
• Works from a single RGB image (monocular)
• Handles complex hand-object interactions
• Produces complete object shapes even when partially occluded by hands
• Uses a novel transformer architecture with cross-attention mechanisms
• Achieves state-of-the-art performance in object reconstruction quality
• Doesn't require hand mesh annotations for training

Plain English Explanation

The researchers have created a new AI system called HORT that can look at a single photo of someone holding an object and create a 3D model of that object. This is challenging because when we hold things, our hands often block parts of the object from view.

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