See the Glass Half Full: Reasoning about Liquid Containers, their Volume and Content

Understand

Humans have rich understanding of liquid containers and their contents; for example, we can effortlessly pour water from a pitcher to a cup.

• Doing so requires estimating the volume of the cup, approximating the amount of water in the pitcher, and predicting the behavior of water when we tilt the pitcher.
• Very little attention in computer vision has been made to liquids and their containers.
• In this paper, we study liquid containers and their contents, and propose methods to estimate the volume of containers, approximate the amount of liquid in them, and perform comparative volume estimations all from a single RGB image.