A new technique can model an entire 3D scene, including areas hidden from view, from just one camera image. The method relies on image shadows, which provide information about the geometry and ...

Tim Burton is at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art right now to present an exhibit that features hundreds of his drawings, paintings, sculptures and films. During an interview, he spoke a bit ...

Researchers from MIT and Meta have developed a computer vision technique that could enable an autonomous vehicle to perceive their wider surroundings - including right through nearby vehicles. The ...

Real-time ray-tracing is the hot thing in video games, but the reality is that what you see in those worlds has generally been a collection of ingenious physical and visual shortcuts, approximations ...

If your home decor is feeling a bit rote, a splash of 3D printing might bring it back to life. Lacelamps is one example of how a simple 3D printing project can be used to give one's home a creative ...

Designing a sheet thin enough for light to shine through, yet thick enough to float on top of water, was a tricky task. The designers explain, “We wanted to mimic water striders and achieve a similar ...

Plato-NeRF is a computer vision system that combines lidar measurements with machine learning to reconstruct a 3D scene, including hidden objects, from only one camera view by exploiting shadows. Here ...