The Princeton University research team introduced Infinigen, an innovative procedural generator for photorealistic 3D scenes, in their recent article titled “Infinite Photorealistic Worlds using Procedural Generation.” This work addresses the limitations of existing synthetic data sets that offer limited diversity and fail to capture the complexity of real-world objects.
Infinigen is a fully procedural system that allows you to generate an infinite number of shapes, textures, materials, and scenic compositions from scratch. Its key feature lies in its ability to produce high levels of photorealism through the procedural generation of both coarse and fine geometric and textural details. Infinigen is separate because all the geometric information it generates is based on real-world references, which enhances the authenticity of synthetic scenes.
Infinigen’s architecture is based on Blender, a widely used graphics system known for its procedural generation capabilities. The research team has designed and implemented a library of procedural rules to extend the coverage of objects and natural scenes. These rules take advantage of the useful primitives available in Blender. In addition, the team has developed utilities that simplify the creation of procedural rules, including an automatic conversion tool that transforms Blender node graphs into Python code. In addition, utilities have been developed to render synthetic images with ground truth labels, providing information such as depth, occlusion limits, bounding boxes, optical flow, surface normals, object categories, and instance segmentation.
To assess the quality of the synthetic data generated by Infinigen, the team conducted extensive experiments and compared it to existing synthetic data sets and generators. The results of these experiments demonstrate Infinigen’s remarkable ability to produce original, photorealistic scenes and assets without relying on external sources. This shows its potential to generate a diverse and expansive training dataset that more accurately reflects the complexity of the real world.
Infinigen is an open source project that the researchers intend to foster as a collaborative effort with the community at large. They are committed to expanding their coverage to encompass all elements of the real world, ensuring its continued development and growth. By offering Infinigen as a freely available resource, the research team hopes to foster collaboration and inspire new advances in procedure generation.
Overall, the introduction of Infinigen marks a significant advance in the generation of synthetic data for machine vision tasks. Its procedural approach, coupled with its ability to produce photorealistic scenes, promises to bridge the gap between existing synthetic data sets and the complexity of real-world objects, making it an invaluable tool for training models in various vision applications. by computer.
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