3D scene reconstruction

Monocular SLAM with MDE for Dense Point Clouds & YOLO for dynamic object detection

Open project

Inspiration

The goal of this project was to attempt a real -> sim, for user interfaces. I got the idea for this after seeing a video from a robotics company on twitter. I thought it would be cool to be able to command the robots like units in starcraft.

PhDs aren't real.

While my friend and I were working on this project we came to the conclusion that phds are not real. (cope)

Since phds are seen as the pinnacle of academia, and you can learn anything in 2-weeks (1 phd). I deicded to measure this project in phds. The project's scope quickly became 4+ phds..

Reconstruction preview
BFMatching

Gaussian Splatting

I spent a lot of time reading about gaussian splatting. It was the best approach I could find for the visulization, but actual Gaussian Splats are far to complex and expensive to render in real-time. I'm still looking into this (august 20, 2025)