The number of people pointing out that in real life they could use depth perception leads me to believe that there some HN readers are aliens whose eyes are significantly farther apart than human eyes [1].
It would be interesting if enough of these images were available to see how well Geoff Hinton or Yann LeCun (or a graduate student of either of them) could do on this with a neural network.
[1] Yes, I know that there are many monocular depth clues, but many (most?) of those work in photos (and movies). It is the binocular ones that people usually mean when they compare a photo to a live scene.
It would be interesting if enough of these images were available to see how well Geoff Hinton or Yann LeCun (or a graduate student of either of them) could do on this with a neural network.
[1] Yes, I know that there are many monocular depth clues, but many (most?) of those work in photos (and movies). It is the binocular ones that people usually mean when they compare a photo to a live scene.