An ancient Mayan city complex is being revealed beneath a forest canopy in the jungles of Northern Guatemala. LIDAR measurements are being used to capture and reconstruct ground features in a series ...

Point-E, unlike similar systems, "leverages a large corpus of (text, image) pairs, allowing it to follow diverse and complex prompts, while our image-to-3D model is trained on a smaller dataset of ...

Laser-scanning technology can create exceptionally detailed 3D models of cultural sites, bringing them to life online—and helping experts restore them if disaster strikes. For the last decade, the ...

Working with large scanning projects with billions of data points can be a tedious and time-consuming process, often resulting in breaking the project into manageable pieces and duplicating data sets ...