In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, I hosted Manuel Dahnert to chat about his paper “Panoptic 3D Scene Reconstruction From a Single RGB Image”, published in NeurIPS 2021. In this paper, they unify the task of reconstruction, semantic segmentation and instance segmentation in 3D from a single RGB image. They propose a holistic approach to lift the 2D features into a 3D grid. Manuel is a good friend and colleague. We first met in my research visit at TUM during my PhD, we...