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Date, Time and Location

May 13, 2026
9AM Pacific
Online. Register for Zoom!

Material selection in 2D and beyond – methods, tricks and applications

In this talk, we’ll explore image understanding from a material-centric perspective, namely through the lens of material understanding. Materials distinguish themselves by their response to light, which is governed and modelled through physical properties like roughness or gloss – however, understanding such properties is a non-trivial task for current models and network architectures. We’ll see how we can select materials similar to a given query material, significantly improve selection fidelity and eventually even venture beyond 2D, to enable selection in the 3D domain.