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by IshKebab 1816 days ago
Meshroom definitely can't do 3D reconstruction from monocular video. But there are other algorithms that can. Just Google "3D reconstruction monocular" and you get loads of demos. E.g. https://youtu.be/TZ1eToXQwN0

Unfortunately I don't know of any that are open source and not research-project style code (i.e. weeks of work to maybe get working).

Matterport are the market leaders in this sort of thing but it's commercial.

https://matterport.com/

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> Meshroom definitely can't do 3D reconstruction from monocular video.

It's quite possible we're not talking about the same thing here, but for my understanding of what "3D reconstruction from monocular video" means, Meshroom most certainly can do that.

To wit, I recently shot a video of a house with my drone, which happens to have just one camera. I then proceeded to extract the frames of the video and fed them to Meshroom.

I am now in possession of a full 3D textured model of said house.

[EDIT]: now that I've watched the video you posted, I see they do the reconstruction in real time, which is cool and which Meshroom can't do. However, if you aren't in a rush, the end result is the same.