Real-Time 3D Point Cloud Reconstruction on Mobile Phones
MonaJalal_ · x · 2026-07-20
This post introduces an **open-source 3D scanning model** that uses standard phones or videos to reconstruct rooms or caves into 3D point clouds in real-time while moving, **without relying on LiDAR or depth sensors**. It highlights that the model runs at around **20 fps** on a single GPU, works on raw indoor and outdoor videos, and showed no obvious drift or collapse during a **13-minute, 25,000-frame** walkthrough. The author also turned the solution into a fully reproducible project and even created a low-cost alternative using a Raspberry Pi + rotating LiDAR.
Related event: SLAM3R: Real-Time 3D Scene Reconstruction from Monocular Video(4 posts)→
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