Visual Grounding of Learned Physical Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2004.13664v2
• Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 15:13:21 GMT
• Title: Visual Grounding of Learned Physical Models
• Authors: Yunzhu Li, Toru Lin, Kexin Yi, Daniel M. Bear, Daniel L. K. Yamins, Jiajun Wu, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Antonio Torralba
• Abstract summary: Humans intuitively recognize objects' physical properties and predict their motion, even when the objects are engaged in complicated interactions. We present a neural model that simultaneously reasons about physics and makes future predictions based on visual and dynamics priors. Experiments show that our model can infer the physical properties within a few observations, which allows the model to quickly adapt to unseen scenarios and make accurate predictions into the future.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Humans intuitively recognize objects' physical properties and predict their motion, even when the objects are engaged in complicated interactions. The abilities to perform physical reasoning and to adapt to new environments, while intrinsic to humans, remain challenging to state-of-the-art computational models. In this work, we present a neural model that simultaneously reasons about physics and makes future predictions based on visual and dynamics priors. The visual prior predicts a particle-based representation of the system from visual observations. An inference module operates on those particles, predicting and refining estimates of particle locations, object states, and physical parameters, subject to the constraints imposed by the dynamics prior, which we refer to as visual grounding. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method in environments involving rigid objects, deformable materials, and fluids. Experiments show that our model can infer the physical properties within a few observations, which allows the model to quickly adapt to unseen scenarios and make accurate predictions into the future.

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