Can I use this to replace a LiDAR?

ENGNR 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

Depends how many liberties it takes in imagining the world

Lidar is direct measurement

incone123 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's generating a 3d world from a photo or other image, rather than giving you a 3d model of the real world.

Look at the examples. It can generate a depth map.

	▲	incone123 6 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yes, which may be fine or not depending on the end goal of the person I replied to. Some applications need the certainty of LiDAR and others can tolerate it if the model makes some mistakes.
	▲	gs17 6 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yes, but that's not a novel part of this. We've been able to do that for a while (a long while if you count binocular or time-of-flight vision systems).

forrestthewoods 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

… absolutely not no this sentence doesn’t even make sense.

Good grief orange site sometimes I swear.

if it does, then elon really won the bet of no lidar

	▲	odie5533 6 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		All he had to do was remove the LIDAR and wait 15-20 years for the tech to catch up. I'm sure Tesla owners don't mind waiting. They're used to it by now.
	▲	HeWhoLurksLate 6 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		there's a huge difference between "feature that mostly works and is kinda neat" and "5000 pound robot relies on this to work all the time or people will probably get hurt at minimum" in how much you should trust a feature. Doesn't really matter if an imgTo3d script gets a face's depth map inverted, kinda problematic if your car doesn't think there's something where there is.
	▲	Cthulhu_ 6 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I wasn't aware there was a competition or a bet.