Volume.gl – 3D Model from Single Image

That sounds interesting. What did you do and why do you think it failed?

I agree. I am sure it would be pretty helpfull for models in the background though, which dont need to be perfect, just an approximation is usually enough. At the least its gonna look better than a billboarded image

This does seem pretty poor, I've never seen any results that were impressive from it, but in its defense any published results tend to pick images that work well.

Can you link to the images you have tried? My tests were rather disappointing. Yes, I got some 3D point cloud from the image, but nothing that I would consider useful outside computer vision community for now.

I thought uploading classic POV-Ray renders would be easy fodder for it, with no noise, "perfect" lighting, simple shapes, and smooth surfaces. But it was pretty much garble for the heightfield.

Looks like they're using Event.srcElement which isn't part of the spec and Event.target has been supported since IE9. So all they would need to do is replace `event.srcElement` with `event.target || event.srcElement`. Ay!

It doesn't seem to work in Chrome either.

I think the first thing that will reveal is just how much detail is simply not there, or is inconsistent. E.g. consider the contortions that people often have to go through to make models of TV series sets fit the available facts because the series have not needed to pay perfect attention to room placement. Or how many rooms, or streets will simply be missing, or even walls of rooms because things are only ever shown from one angle.

It may make it easier to generate such environments, but it'll still require a huge amount of extrapolation.

That's structure-through-motion and it's an older tech.