Research notes / SIGGRAPH 2026
Checking coverage while the camera is still on site
A SIGGRAPH 2026 paper explores a practical question. Can an operator see a reconstruction take shape even when photographs arrive out of order?
What changed
Meuleman and colleagues match incoming photographs to earlier views, updating a Gaussian scene as they go. Revisiting an area lets the method reconcile overlapping parts of the reconstruction.
In the field
Imagine finishing a loop around a tower and seeing a gap behind an insulator before packing up. An extra oblique photograph could be collected on the same visit. For an inspection record, keep the source frames and note which faces were still out of sight.
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