Generative AI's rise has spurred interest in developing AI models that understand and replicate physical laws, with a focus on simulating gravity and liquid dynamics.
Latent diffusion models (LDMs) have become dominant in generative AI, sparking research into their limitations in comprehending and reproducing physical phenomena.
Issue of accurate reflections in LDMs has gained attention, with research focusing on improving their understanding of mirror reflections.
Challenges with reflections are prominent in industries like CGI and video gaming, where ray-tracing algorithms are used to simulate realistic reflections and shadows.
Efforts have been made to improve reflection capabilities in models like Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and Gaussian Splatting, with various projects tackling the reflection problem.
Diffusion models face difficulty in incorporating accurate reflections, requiring extensive and varied training data sets to embed reflection-related rules reliably.
Recent MirrorVerse project from India aims to enhance diffusion models' reflection capabilities through an improved dataset and training method.
The MirrorVerse project introduces MirrorFusion 2.0, a diffusion-based generative model focusing on improving photorealism and geometric accuracy in mirror reflections.
MirrorGen2 dataset, curated for MirrorVerse, enhances mirror reflection training data through diverse 3D objects, scene constructions, and synthetic data generation methods.
A three-stage curriculum learning process was designed for training MirrorFusion 2.0, incorporating synthetic and real-world data sets to enhance reflection quality and generalization.