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Re:3D scanning like a pro by nuntius on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @10:00PM (#14305398)
Some of the visual SLAM techniques are also getting fairly good results for cheap. In particular, see DSO (same research group as the previous LSD-SLAM).

http://vision.in.tum.de/research/vslam/dso

Re:3D scanning like a pro by eerikkivistik on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @01:35AM (#14306125)
Nice paper, hadn't seen this one before, seems pretty recent.