SoftPhy: Soft-Body Physical Concept Learning and Reasoning from Videos

23 Sept 2023 (modified: 11 Feb 2024)Submitted to ICLR 2024EveryoneRevisionsBibTeX
Primary Area: neurosymbolic & hybrid AI systems (physics-informed, logic & formal reasoning, etc.)
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Keywords: Neuro-symbolic Visual Reasoning, Physical Reasoning
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Abstract: We introduce the Soft-Body Physical Dataset (SOPHY), a novel benchmark for evaluating machine models in physical reasoning across diverse scenarios for soft bodies. The SOPHY is specifically designed to be complementary with existing physical reasoning benchmarks by encompassing diverse physical property inferences for soft bodies like physical parameters such as mass and density across dynamic situations and predicting corresponding dynamics. This comprehensive dataset enables the development and assessment of AI models with human-like visual reasoning abilities in understanding both rigid objects and soft objects’ visual attributes, physical properties, and dynamics while devising goal-oriented solutions. We evaluated a range of AI models and found that they still struggle to achieve satisfactory performance, which shows that current AI models still lack physical commonsense for soft objects and illustrates the value of the proposed dataset. We hope the SOPHY fosters advancements in AI perception and reasoning in diverse physical environments, bridging the gap between human and machine intelligence in the physical world.
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Submission Number: 6857
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