This week was all about our PR System-Level Design Review (SLDR) for the VOXEL O2A pipeline. We presented alongside four other IPPD teams, our coaches, and the TA, so it felt more like a mini conference than a regular class review. As a team, we walked everyone through how a simple phone capture travels through our pipeline from object isolation and 3D reconstruction all the way to Unity-ready assets. People responded well to the way we framed O2A as a complete, mobile first workflow rather than a single demo, and several reviewers specifically highlighted our clear module breakdown, error-handling strategy, and focus on turning research ideas into something a real user could actually touch and use.

The overall tone of the feedback was very encouraging. Reviewers felt we had a solid foundation and a realistic plan for where the system is headed next. The main suggestions were to simplify our architecture slide so that the core data flow pops out more clearly at a glance, and to spell out our testing plan in a more structured way what datasets we’ll use, which metrics (like PSNR, SSIM, runtime) we’ll report, and how we’ll compare against baselines such as NeRF and COLMAP. Both of these feel more like polishing than major rework, which boosted our confidence that we’re on the right track.

Looking ahead, we want to convert this momentum into concrete upgrades. We plan to redesign the architecture slide with cleaner visuals, then expand our SLDR document to clearly describe our evaluation pipeline, baselines, and Spring 2026 testing roadmap. In parallel, we’ll keep strengthening the technical side: stabilizing our mesh and texture pipeline, experimenting with Poisson/Ball Pivoting, running 3D Gaussian Splatting on benchmark datasets, and tightening our Unity-based visualization so people can freely rotate and inspect our reconstructed assets. Overall, this SLDR made VOXEL O2A feel less like a one-time prototype and more like a product-ready pipeline in progress, and that’s a direction we’re excited to keep building toward.