Hi, this is Wenbo. I am pursuing a second M.Sc. at the Technical University of Munich and working on video diffusion, world models, and robot dexterous manipulation. Here I write about generative modeling, 3D reconstruction, and occasional thoughts on research and life.
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The Age of Auto Research, and Other Certainties
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way–in short, the period was so. far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. —— Charles Dickens
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On 3D, Video World Models, and the Approaching ImageNet Moment of Perception-Action Learning
How can perception-action learning reach its own ImageNet moment, and what role might 3D and video world models play in building causal, physically accurate representations of the world that are useful for action?