So you can programmatically approximate the scene intrinsics in this paper with traditional programs as well given a single image. All these scene data is alre

So you can programmatically approximate the scene intrinsics in this paper with traditional programs as well given a single image. All these scene data is already suggested by the data, what the AI model is doing is approximating the data it needs to generate a scene. It’s not just gluing data together, it’s discovering interrelationships in a very high dimensional feature space. It’s not creating anything it hasn’t seen either, which is why many image models (mostly smaller ones) have so much trouble with making fine details make sense, but are good with universal patterns like physics, lighting, the human shape, and composition. (not sure if you were trying to imply that, but it felt like it)