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autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>  <h2 class="relative group"><a id="ml-friendly-3d" class="header-link block pr-1.5 text-lg no-hover:hidden with-hover:absolute with-hover:p-1.5 with-hover:opacity-0 with-hover:group-hover:opacity-100 with-hover:right-full" href="#ml-friendly-3d"><span><svg class="" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" aria-hidden="true" role="img" width="1em" height="1em" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" viewBox="0 0 256 256"><path d="M167.594 88.393a8.001 8.001 0 0 1 0 11.314l-67.882 67.882a8 8 0 1 1-11.314-11.315l67.882-67.881a8.003 8.003 0 0 1 11.314 0zm-28.287 84.86l-28.284 28.284a40 40 0 0 1-56.567-56.567l28.284-28.284a8 8 0 0 0-11.315-11.315l-28.284 28.284a56 56 0 0 0 79.196 79.197l28.285-28.285a8 8 0 1 0-11.315-11.314zM212.852 43.14a56.002 56.002 0 0 0-79.196 0l-28.284 28.284a8 8 0 1 0 11.314 11.314l28.284-28.284a40 40 0 0 1 56.568 56.567l-28.285 28.285a8 8 0 0 0 11.315 11.314l28.284-28.284a56.065 56.065 0 0 0 0-79.196z" fill="currentColor"></path></svg></span></a> <span>ML-friendly 3D</span></h2> <p data-svelte-h="svelte-199w52c">Let’s take a step back and consider the generative 3D pipeline as a whole.</p> <p data-svelte-h="svelte-kq3158"><img src="https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/ml-for-3d-course/3d-pipeline.png" alt="3D Pipeline"></p> <p data-svelte-h="svelte-37o03a">After multi-view diffusion comes ML-friendly 3D. This is some non-mesh representation of 3D that’s easy for AI to handle.</p> <p data-svelte-h="svelte-16xygpk">In the current 3D research ecosystem, this can be a lot of things:</p> <ul data-svelte-h="svelte-1u74osp"><li><strong>Gaussian Splatting</strong>: Detailed in this unit</li> <li><strong>Triplanes</strong>: Latest state-of-the-art. Learn more in this <a href="https://colab.research.google.com/github/FeMa42/OpenLRM/blob/main/Introduction_to_triplanes_colab.ipynb" rel="nofollow">Community Notebook</a></li> <li><strong>NeRFs</strong>: Synthesize novel views with a neural network</li> <li>and more</li></ul> <p data-svelte-h="svelte-jjlq4v">This is all changing very rapidly. So, like in the case of multi-view diffusion, ML-friendly 3D can be treated like a black box, using <a href="https://huggingface.co/models?pipeline_tag=image-to-3d&sort=trending" rel="nofollow">pre-trained models</a>.</p>  <h2 class="relative group"><a id="gaussian-splatting" class="header-link block pr-1.5 text-lg no-hover:hidden with-hover:absolute with-hover:p-1.5 with-hover:opacity-0 with-hover:group-hover:opacity-100 with-hover:right-full" href="#gaussian-splatting"><span><svg class="" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" aria-hidden="true" role="img" width="1em" height="1em" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" viewBox="0 0 256 256"><path d="M167.594 88.393a8.001 8.001 0 0 1 0 11.314l-67.882 67.882a8 8 0 1 1-11.314-11.315l67.882-67.881a8.003 8.003 0 0 1 11.314 0zm-28.287 84.86l-28.284 28.284a40 40 0 0 1-56.567-56.567l28.284-28.284a8 8 0 0 0-11.315-11.315l-28.284 28.284a56 56 0 0 0 79.196 79.197l28.285-28.285a8 8 0 1 0-11.315-11.314zM212.852 43.14a56.002 56.002 0 0 0-79.196 0l-28.284 28.284a8 8 0 1 0 11.314 11.314l28.284-28.284a40 40 0 0 1 56.568 56.567l-28.285 28.285a8 8 0 0 0 11.315 11.314l28.284-28.284a56.065 56.065 0 0 0 0-79.196z" fill="currentColor"></path></svg></span></a> <span>Gaussian Splatting</span></h2> <p data-svelte-h="svelte-zgbv0x">In this unit, I’ll be diving deeper into one of these: Gaussian Splatting.</p> <p data-svelte-h="svelte-o7axvn">The reason I’m diving deeper into this is that, unlike the other representations, splats can be <a href="https://huggingface.co/spaces/dylanebert/4DGS-demo" rel="nofollow">rendered in real-time</a>, making them suitable for end-to-end 3D applications where everything is AI-compatible.</p> <p data-svelte-h="svelte-4b3xjd">Let’s get started!</p> <a class="!text-gray-400 !no-underline text-sm flex items-center not-prose mt-4" href="https://github.com/huggingface/ml-for-3d-course/blob/main/units/en/unit3/introduction.mdx" target="_blank"><svg class="mr-1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" aria-hidden="true" fill="currentColor" focusable="false" role="img" width="1em" height="1em" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" viewBox="0 0 32 32"><path d="M31,16l-7,7l-1.41-1.41L28.17,16l-5.58-5.59L24,9l7,7z"></path><path d="M1,16l7-7l1.41,1.41L3.83,16l5.58,5.59L8,23l-7-7z"></path><path d="M12.419,25.484L17.639,6.552l1.932,0.518L14.351,26.002z"></path></svg> <span data-svelte-h="svelte-zjs2n5"><span class="underline">Update</span> on GitHub</span></a>  <p></p> 
			
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