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by KaiserPro 2500 days ago
Yes, we can. We can do it with one eye too.

but it takes at least 10 years to train.

But most of the time we are not building a 3d map from points. we are building it from object inference.

There are many advantages that we have over machines:

o The eye seens much beter in the dark o It has a massive dynamic range, allowing us to see both light and dark things o it moves to where the threat is o if it's occluded it can move to get a better image o it has a massive database of objects in context o each object has a mass, dimension, speed and location it should be seen in

None of those are 3d maps, they are all inference, where one can derrive the threat/advantage based on history.

We can't make machines do that yet.

you are correct that two cameras allows for better 3d pointcloud making in some situations. but a moving single camera is better than a static multiview camera.

however even then the 3d map isn't all that great, and has a massive latency compared to lidar.