Have been throwing CC-licensed drone videos through Polycam’s implementation of Gaussian splatting.
With about 100 resized frames selected from this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mistail,_aerial_video.webm
It gives this: https://poly.cam/capture/1b6abb91-bf29-4a1b-9483-678f8749073d
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For the curious, here’s a nice writeup of how this works – it’s a fun combination of multi-decade–old ideas, “standard” structure-from-motion, and tricks that are inspired by (but not directly based on) the current GPU and neural network boom: https://aras-p.info/blog/2023/09/05/Gaussian-Splatting-is-pretty-cool/
