TerraSky3D: Multi-View Reconstructions of European Landmarks in 4K

TL;DR

TerraSky3D is a high-resolution, large-scale 3D reconstruction dataset of European landmarks with 50,000 images, designed to address the scarcity of suitable public datasets for training and evaluating 3D reconstruction pipelines.

Contribution

This paper introduces TerraSky3D, a comprehensive dataset with curated calibration, camera poses, and depth maps, filling a gap in publicly available high-quality 3D reconstruction data.

Findings

Provides 50,000 high-resolution images of European landmarks

Includes calibration data, camera poses, and depth maps

Enables training and evaluation of 3D reconstruction pipelines

Abstract

Despite the growing need for data of more and more sophisticated 3D reconstruction pipelines, we can still observe a scarcity of suitable public datasets. Existing 3D datasets are either low resolution, limited to a small amount of scenes, based on images of varying quality because retrieved from the internet, or limited to specific capturing scenarios. Motivated by this lack of suitable 3D datasets, we captured TerraSky3D, a high-resolution large-scale 3D reconstruction dataset comprising 50,000 images divided into 150 ground, aerial, and mixed scenes. The dataset focuses on European landmarks and comes with curated calibration data, camera poses, and depth maps. TerraSky3D tries to answer the need for challenging dataset that can be used to train and evaluate 3D reconstruction-related pipelines.