An Introduction to Gaussian Splatting and AI Perception

Date: 10. November 2026, 13:00 – 14:00 (CET)Price:  Free (for eligible participants)Format: AI:AT Webinar, ONLINE (Zoom)Target audience: Industry, public admin, academiaLanguage: EnglishOrganizer: AI:ATHow does AI perceive our 3D world from a few photos? How can it represent it and reason about it? Join us in this deep dive webinar to learn how AI can visually understand.How does AI reconstruct a 3D scene from a handful of photos? This session lifts the hood on learnable 3D scene representation, aimed at ML practitioners, designers, and persons with a technical interest but not necessarily in computer vision.We start with inverse rendering, the paradigm that lets us learn 3D structure directly from 2D images, and survey the landscape of how 3D scenes can be represented (NeRFs, point clouds, meshes, … ) before diving deep into Gaussian Splatting: how it works, why it's fast, and what makes it different from neural implicit approaches.We'll then explore practical applications: 3D reconstruction, infusing semantic meaning into 3D scenes, and text-based scene retrieval that allows querying the 3D world using natural language. You'll leave with a solid, intuitive grasp of how AI learns to perceive and represent 3D space, and where this fast-moving field is headed.At the end of this session you will:Understand the inverse rendering paradigm and how AI learns 3D structure from 2D imagesGrasp how the Gaussian Splatting algorithm works under the hood, and why it's fast and efficientSee how multi-modal AI methods incorporate Gaussian Splatting to tackle various tasks in an explainable manner  Target audienceAnyone from industry, public admin and academia interested in 3D Computer Vision.This webinar is open and free of charge for all participants from academia, industry, and public administration from EU and/or EuroHPC JU member countries.Entry level & prerequisitesIntermediateAgendaWelcome & Introduction of AI Factory Austria AI:ATIntroduction to Gaussian Splatting and AI PerceptionInverse Rendering and Scene RepresentationGaussian Splatting as learnable scene representationsApplications in various Vision Tasks, e.g. Segmentation, SLAM, …  Questions & DiscussionSpeakersChristian Kapeller, MSc (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH)                         Christian Kapeller is a computer vision scientist at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, specializing in machine vision and synthetic visual data set modelling. He holds a Master's degree in Computational Intelligence from TU Vienna and has over a decade of experience in computer vision for industrial inspection. He is passionate about developing high-performance, accurate, and explainable AI systems that solve real-world challenges and support humans in their jobs.LanguageEnglishDate, time, and location10.11.2026, 13:00 – 14:00 (CET), LIVE ONLINE WEBINAR (Zoom)RegistrationRegistration is required, the link to the registration form can be found on the top of this page in the menu on the left. Please register with your official institutional email address to prove your affiliation.You will get the Zoom link in the automatic confirmation by email (subject starting with "[Indico] Registration"), please check your Spam/Junk folders). We will also send 1–2 reminders before the webinar.Please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected] if you have any questions.Modification, withdrawal & no-show policyYour registration is binding. Please only register for the course if you are really going to attend.You can update your registration data or withdraw your registration anytime before the registration form has been closed via the link "Manage my registration" which you can find at the bottom of your automatic email confirmation (subject starting with "[Indico] Registration").Alternatively, or after the registration form has been closed, please inform us about your cancelation or any change in your registration data (especially your mobile-phone number) via email ([email protected]).No-show policy: If you do not cancel and do not show up at the course you will be blacklisted and excluded from future training events.OrganizersThis webinar is organized by AI Factory Austria AI:AT.AcknowledgementsAI Factory Austria AI:AT has received funding from the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 101253078. The JU receives support from the Horizon Europe Programm of the European Union and Austria (BMIMI / FFG).

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