{"id":225190,"date":"2025-11-16T04:07:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T10:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/3d-worlds-created-from-just-a-few-phone-photos"},"modified":"2025-11-16T04:07:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T10:07:42","slug":"3d-worlds-created-from-just-a-few-phone-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/3d-worlds-created-from-just-a-few-phone-photos","title":{"rendered":"3D worlds created from just a few phone photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/3d-worlds-created-from-just-a-few-phone-photos3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Existing 3D scene reconstructions require a cumbersome process of precisely measuring physical spaces with LiDAR or 3D scanners, or correcting thousands of photos along with camera pose information. A research team at KAIST has overcome these limitations and introduced a technology enabling the reconstruction of 3D\u2014from tabletop objects to outdoor scenes\u2014with just two to three ordinary photographs.<\/p>\n<p>The results, <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2505.22978\" target=\"_blank\">posted<\/a> to the <i>arXiv<\/i> preprint server, suggest a new paradigm in which spaces captured by <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/camera\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">camera<\/a> can be immediately transformed into virtual environments.<\/p>\n<p>The research team led by Professor Sung-Eui Yoon from the School of Computing developed the new technology called SHARE (Shape-Ray Estimation), which can reconstruct high-quality 3D scenes using only ordinary images, without precise camera pose information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Existing 3D scene reconstructions require a cumbersome process of precisely measuring physical spaces with LiDAR or 3D scanners, or correcting thousands of photos along with camera pose information. A research team at KAIST has overcome these limitations and introduced a technology enabling the reconstruction of 3D\u2014from tabletop objects to outdoor scenes\u2014with just two to three [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}