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Self Adaptive LLMs (arxiv.org)
1 point by mottiden on Jan 15, 2025 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: Give it a building's name, address, or coordinates and it pulls Google Earth views, cuts out the building in each using text or click prompts, then turns them into a 3D mesh. Unlike usual 3D capture, it needs no labeled training photos or tracing.

Abstract · Gaussian Building Mesh (GBM): Extract a Building's 3D Mesh with Google Earth and Gaussian Splatting

Recently released open-source pre-trained foundational image segmentation and object detection models (SAM2+GroundingDINO) allow for geometrically consistent segmentation of objects of interest in multi-view 2D images. Users can use text-based or click-based prompts to segment objects of interest without requiring labeled training datasets. Gaussian Splatting allows for the learning of the 3D representation of a scene's geometry and radiance based on 2D images. Combining Google Earth Studio, SAM2+GroundingDINO, 2D Gaussian Splatting, and our improvements in mask refinement based on morphological operations and contour simplification, we created a pipeline to extract the 3D mesh of any building based on its name, address, or geographic coordinates.

Kyle Gao, Liangzhi Li, Hongjie He, Dening Lu, Linlin Xu, Jonathan Li
arXiv:2501.00625 · cs.CV, cs.GR · submitted Dec 31, 2024 · updated Jun 5, 2025
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