vision_blender
Dev tools
synthetic data generation addon
SHOW HN2020
How HN took it
8 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 15 comments about the project. Thread score +0.42.
Idea: 4 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Very cool, useful for synthetic computer vision data
From 3 comments
Very, very cool work, I fully expect to use this exact project in the future! To those of you who always thought this stuff looked neat but never tried it out, and to those who…
bluejellybean on HNVery cool! I've done something similar for improving an OCR system on crinkled paper[0]. Blender is a powerful and totally underutilized tool for this kind of work 0.…
daenz on HNExcellent! For a while my job entailed this very thing: creating synthetic data for computer vision, and I used Blender as well! You've done a great job.
btparker on HN
Good presentation and clear project
From 2 comments
Ok, this turned out to be far more interesting than the title here reads like. The little abstract at the top is far more informative: > A Blender user-interface to generate…
dr_zoidberg on HNWhat the heck. This is beyond awesome I totally want to try it out
technicolorwhat on HN
Objections
Term synthetic ground truth seems contradictory
From 2 comments
"synthetic ground truth"... isn't that an oxymoron?
tantalor on HNGround truth in this case means images with labels of some sort on parts of the image or objects in the image, not that they're real images themselves. So a cat in a photo with a…
notsuoh on HN
Requests
Add a link to the presentation video in the README
From 1 comment
Love it! Should maybe add a link in addition to the video "image". Was not intuitive if it is a an image from a video or a link to a video (I am not used to video "preview" on…
punnerud on HN
Run as a library instead of inside Blender for speed
From 2 comments
One question: why does it need to run inside Blender instead of just using its graphical primitives as a library?
amelius on HNThat's a good idea, it would make it faster for sure.
morroida on HN
Questions
Does synthetic training data introduce problems for real data matching
From 1 comment
Does using synthetic training data introduce any problems? How do you ensure your synthetic data matches real data?
chrisseaton on HN
Is this face motion tracking
From 1 comment
Is this face motion tracking using a camera to apply to 3D models?
DonCopal on HN
Alternatives named
BlenderProc
From 1 comment
A few related projects: - https://github.com/DLR-RM/BlenderProc - https://github.com/cheind/pytorch-blender - https://github.com/DIYer22/bpycv -…
m_ke on HN
pytorch-blender
From 1 comment
A few related projects: - https://github.com/DLR-RM/BlenderProc - https://github.com/cheind/pytorch-blender - https://github.com/DIYer22/bpycv -…
m_ke on HN
bpycv
From 1 comment
A few related projects: - https://github.com/DLR-RM/BlenderProc - https://github.com/cheind/pytorch-blender - https://github.com/DIYer22/bpycv -…
m_ke on HN
blender-cli-rendering
From 1 comment
A few related projects: - https://github.com/DLR-RM/BlenderProc - https://github.com/cheind/pytorch-blender - https://github.com/DIYer22/bpycv -…
m_ke on HN