arXiv (Cornell University)
Neural 3D Object Reconstruction with Small-Scale Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
September 2025 • Àlmos Veres-Vitàlyos, Genís Castillo Gómez-Raya, Filip Lemić, Daniel Johannes Bugelnig, Bernhard Rinner, Sergi Abadal, Xavier Costa‐Pérez
Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) exhibit immense potential for navigating indoor and hard-to-reach areas, yet their significant constraints in payload and autonomy have largely prevented their use for complex tasks like high-quality 3-Dimensional (3D) reconstruction. To overcome this challenge, we introduce a novel system architecture that enables fully autonomous, high-fidelity 3D scanning of static objects using UAVs weighing under 100 grams. Our core innovation lies in a dual-reconstruction pipeline that c…