Apple’s new open-source model turns 2D photos into 3D views

The model, called SHARP, can reconstruct a photorealistic 3D scene from a single image in under a second. Here are some examples.

SHARP is just awesome

Apple has published a study titled Sharp Monocular View Synthesis in Less Than a Second, in which it details how it trained a model to reconstruct a 3D scene from a single 2D image, while keeping distances and scale consistent in real-world terms.

Here’s how Apple’s researchers present the study:

We present SHARP, an…