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ETH is insane last few years, last year literally dirt cheap literally lossless seasonal energy storage : https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2024/08/iro...

now they have better 3D perception algo than Tesla after 10 years of Musks fraudulent ai claims...

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There's quite a few monocular depth estimation models out there, have been for years. This one looks pretty good. That said, the temporal stability seems pretty wobbly, I don't think I'd use it for a self driving car.

The most impressive example was the point cloud they generated from the extreme fisheye lens, that was nice.

Predicting that the background on cloud city was a flat matte painting is also impressive in a way. It does seem to collapse all far field objects into a single plane. That's a decent compromise for many things.

tesla can not see paper box in my garage.

Another leading monocular depth estimation model, Marigold [1] is also from ETH.

[1] https://marigoldmonodepth.github.io/

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