Future Benchmarks

Future benchmarks will address more intuitive physics conceptual blocks. Here are some projected blocks.

Block

Core Principle

Related computational problem

Infants

Objects

O0

Objecthood

object segmentation

4 months

O1 (2019)

Object permanence

object tracking

5 months

O2 (2019)

Shape constancy

tracking+categorization

10,12 months

O3 (2019)

Spatio-temporal continuity

tracking+prediction

4 months

O4

Energy conservation

trajectory prediction

from 10 months

Interactions

I1

Impenetrability

muti-object trajectory planning

I2

Contact causality

action planning

I3

Gravity and support

predicting stability

I4

Containement

object reasoning

Further blocks will be developped on more complex or non-rigid objects like strings, membranes, fluids and gasses, or articulated objects. Another direction is to use simple objects but more complex dynamics, like self-propelled objects, agents, etc.