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PyTorch3D: reusable components for 3D deep learning research

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# PyTorch3D: reusable components for 3D deep learning research

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PyTorch3D provides efficient, reusable components for 3D computer vision research with PyTorch. The README lists data structures for triangle meshes, efficient mesh operations (projective transformations, graph convolution, sampling, loss functions), a differentiable mesh renderer and Implicitron, a framework for new-view synthesis through implicit representations. All operators use PyTorch tensors, handle heterogeneous minibatches, are differentiable and can use GPUs.

Source: https://github.com/facebookresearch/pytorch3d

What it supplies: PyTorch3D provides efficient, reusable components for 3D computer vision research with PyTorch. The README lists data structures for triangle meshes, efficient mesh operations (projective transformations, graph convolution, sampling, loss functions), a differentiable mesh renderer and Implicitron, a framework for new-view synthesis through implicit representations. All operators use PyTorch tensors, handle heterogeneous minibatches, are differentiable and can use GPUs.

Useful for: - Render textured meshes or point clouds differentiably for fitting and optimisation.
- Optimise camera positions or fit a mesh with texture.
- Experiment with simple neural radiance fields in the tutorial notebooks.

First action: - Follow INSTALL.md for your PyTorch and CUDA setup.
- Open a tutorial notebook such as deforming a sphere mesh into a dolphin or rendering textured meshes.
- Read the documentation and the notes on heterogeneous batching, mesh IO and differentiable rendering.

Prerequisites and limits: The README defers requirements to INSTALL.md and gives no versions or hardware figures in the text read.

- It is a research library, not an end-user 3D tool.
- Installation details depend on your PyTorch and CUDA versions and are in a separate file.

The README states PyTorch3D is released under the BSD License. Meshes, textures and datasets you use carry their own rights.

Written from the README text only. Statements are as the README gives them; nothing was installed or run. 

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