Title
SPACE: A Simulator for Physical Interactions and Causal Learning in 3D Environments
Abstract
Recent advancements in deep learning, computer vision, and embodied AI have given rise to synthetic causal reasoning video datasets. These datasets facilitate the development of AI algorithms that can reason about physical interactions between objects. However, datasets thus far have primarily focused on elementary physical events such as rolling or falling. There is currently a scarcity of datasets that focus on the physical interactions that humans perform daily with objects in the real world. To address this scarcity, we introduce SPACE: A Simulator for Physical Interactions and Causal Learning in 3D Environments. The SPACE simulator allows us to generate the SPACE dataset, a synthetic video dataset in a 3D environment, to systematically evaluate physics-based models on a range of physical causal reasoning tasks. Inspired by daily object interactions, the SPACE dataset comprises videos depicting three types of physical events: containment, stability and contact. These events make up the vast majority of the basic physical interactions between objects. We then further evaluate it with a state-of-the-art physics-based deep model and show that the SPACE dataset improves the learning of intuitive physics with an approach inspired by curriculum learning. Repository: https://github.com/jiafei1224/SPACE
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/ICCVW54120.2021.00233
2021 IEEE/CVF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION WORKSHOPS (ICCVW 2021)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
n/a
Conference
2021
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
2473-9936
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jiafei Duan100.34
Samson Yu Bai Jian200.34
Cheston Tan315515.27