about the sparse_X.txt selected

[GongMingCarmen]

How are the IDs of the images in the sparse_x.txt selected? Are they chosen randomly?

[GaussianObject]

Thank you for your question! The 6-view and 9-view setups of Mip360 were adopted from previous sparse view research settings, ensuring consistency with established experimental frameworks. For our additional experiments, camera positions were selected casually, with the aim of achieving maximum possible coverage of the objects.

[ch1998]

What is the specific content of sparse_x.txt? such as： xxxx.png xxxx.png ? Can you give an example or a script to generate txt? Thank you so much.

[GaussianObject]

The sparse_x.txt file contains the sequence numbers of the images, starting from 0. For example, the sparse_4.txt of the kitchen scene is

14
70
171
196