Meshroom VS MotioNet

Take a look at Meshroom from https://alicevision.org/

It's a pretty decent tool, although not sure if videos work well.

I once tried to build a mesh from an aerial video by extracting certain frames and the result was ok-ish

You'll need to get some practice with photogrammetry or other 3D scanning to get the appropriate shapes for each animal, this should be more or less something the right size with adequate straps and padding - https://alicevision.org is a good place to learn about photogrammetry.

Have you tried Alice Vision? https://alicevision.org

Huh. https://github.com/alicevision/meshroom/issues/1650 suggests you can get the camera positions into blender, and then putting pyramids views in, and then get the interested area.

Another alternative for ptgui is https://alicevision.org and it is free

A new version of Meshroom released last month, so I decided to compare the performance and results of the two with the same dataset and mostly the same settings.

Photogrametrie https://alicevision.org/

They could be a great application for niches, though. Prototyping 3d games or movies can be helped greatly by such techniques.

If you can take a photo (effort required: seconds) and turn it into a textures low- to mid-poly model within seconds, that's a huge time saver right there.

Combined with other techniques [1], [2] this could indeed present a viable business model - again for certain niches. It's the same old routine: identify potential, present solution, profit (if only for a limited time). On its own this might not look too useful/impressive, but I'm certain there's people out there who could already benefit greatly from this work.

It's not always about "the next big thing" or "turning an entire industry on its head". I could see this work its way into various products without much fanfare and gazillion dollar valuations.

[1] https://github.com/Shimingyi/MotioNet

[2] https://deepai.org/publication/end-to-end-learning-for-3d-fa...