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UAV3DCrop: Benchmarking 3D Reconstruction in Repeated Multi-Angle UAV Crop Surveys

Aug 02, 2026

Existing 3D reconstruction methods struggle to simultaneously achieve photorealistic appearance, geometric accuracy, and agronomic utility in crop scenes, and lack standardized evaluation benchmarks tailored to repetitive multi-view drone imagery. This work introduces the first public benchmark dataset for precision agriculture, comprising 91 field plots of maize, soybean, wheat, and oat, along with 88,830 high-resolution RGB images. Two evaluation tracks are established: one focusing on optimized scene reconstruction using NeRF and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), and the other assessing zero-shot geometry estimation by pre-trained feedforward models such as MapAnything. Experiments show that Splatfacto-big achieves the best visual fidelity, while Scaffold-GS excels in depth and canopy height recovery; notably, only MapAnything reliably recovers absolute scale, whereas other feedforward models exhibit significant scale bias.

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UAV3DCrop: Benchmarking 3D Reconstruction in Repeated Multi-Angle UAV Crop Surveys

Aug 02, 2026

Existing 3D reconstruction methods struggle to simultaneously achieve photorealistic appearance, geometric accuracy, and agronomic utility in crop scenes, and lack standardized evaluation benchmarks tailored to repetitive multi-view drone imagery. This work introduces the first public benchmark dataset for precision agriculture, comprising 91 field plots of maize, soybean, wheat, and oat, along with 88,830 high-resolution RGB images. Two evaluation tracks are established: one focusing on optimized scene reconstruction using NeRF and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), and the other assessing zero-shot geometry estimation by pre-trained feedforward models such as MapAnything. Experiments show that Splatfacto-big achieves the best visual fidelity, while Scaffold-GS excels in depth and canopy height recovery; notably, only MapAnything reliably recovers absolute scale, whereas other feedforward models exhibit significant scale bias.

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