It is cool to see recent research doing this to reconstruct scenes from fewer images, essentially using a transformer to guess what the scene structure is. Prev

It is cool to see recent research doing this to reconstruct scenes from fewer images, essentially using a transformer to guess what the scene structure is. Previously, you needed a ton of images and had to use COLMAP. All the fancy papers like NERF and Gaussian Splatting used COLMAP in the backend, and while it does a great job in terms of accuracy, it is slow and requires a lot of images with known calibration.