Moving Camera, Moving People: Google AI's Deep Learning Approach to Depth Prediction

Google AI has introduced a deep learning based approach that generates depth prediction from videos where both camera and subject are in motion. Humans are very good at making sense of the 3D world through 2D projections. Even in complex environments with objects in motion we can still form a fairly sound understanding of where everything is. Computer vision however does not do so well in this regard. Researchers in the field have long sought to develop a mechanism capable of achieving 3D world understanding by reconstructing geometry and depth ordering from 2D image data via computation.