A team of Italian scientists claims to have uncovered extensive underground structures beneath the Khafre Pyramid using a new satellite-based SAR scanning method. Their findings include five chambers ...

Archaeologists from the University of Houston working at Caracol in Belize, Central America have uncovered the tomb of Te ...

We present a next-best-scan (NBS) planning approach for autonomous 3D modeling. The system successively completes a 3D model from complex shaped objects by iteratively selecting a NBS based on ...

This horizon scanner fairing is a piece from the Gemini model, which shows the complete, two-astronaut Gemini spacecraft as it appeared in orbit. The black reentry module with two hatches contained ...

Methods based on 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) for surface reconstruction face challenges when applied to large-scale scenes captured by UAV. Because the number of 3D Gaussians increases dramatically, ...