COLMAP is a general-purpose Structure-from-Motion (SfM) and Multi-View Stereo (MVS) pipeline with a graphical and command-line interface. It offers a wide range of features for reconstruction of ordered and unordered image collections. The software is licensed under the GNU General Public License. If you use this project for your research, please cite:
@inproceedings{schoenberger2016sfm,
author = {Sch\"{o}nberger, Johannes Lutz and Frahm, Jan-Michael},
title = {Structure-from-Motion Revisited},
booktitle={IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
year={2016},
}
@inproceedings{schoenberger2016mvs,
author = {Sch\"{o}nberger, Johannes Lutz and Zheng, Enliang and Pollefeys, Marc and Frahm, Jan-Michael},
title = {Pixelwise View Selection for Unstructured Multi-View Stereo},
booktitle={European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
year={2016},
}
The latest source code is available at https://github.com/colmap/colmap. COLMAP builds on top of existing works and when using specific algorithms within COLMAP, please also cite the original authors, as specified in the source code.
Executables and other resources can be downloaded from http://people.inf.ethz.ch/jschoenb/colmap/.
- Download the pre-built binaries from http://people.inf.ethz.ch/jschoenb/colmap/ or build the library manually as described in the documentation.
- Download one of the provided datasets at http://people.inf.ethz.ch/jschoenb/colmap/datasets/ or use your own images.
- Watch the short introductory video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-EC0DzeVEU or read the tutorial in the documentation at https://colmap.github.io/ for more details.
The documentation is available at https://colmap.github.io/.
Please, use the COLMAP Google Group at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/colmap (colmap@googlegroups.com) for questions and the GitHub issue tracker at https://github.com/colmap/colmap for bug reports, feature requests/additions, etc.
The library was written by Johannes L. Schönberger (http://people.inf.ethz.ch/jschoenb/). Funding was provided by his PhD advisor Jan-Michael Frahm (http://frahm.web.unc.edu/) through the grants NSF No. IIS-1349074, No. CNS-1405847, and the MITRE Corp.
Contributions (bug reports, bug fixes, improvements, etc.) are very welcome and should be submitted in the form of new issues and/or pull requests on GitHub.
Please, adhere to the Google coding style guide:
https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html
by using the provided ".clang-format" file.
Document functions, methods, classes, etc. with inline documentation strings describing the API, using the following format:
// Short description.
//
// Longer description with a few sentences and multiple lines.
//
// @param parameter1 Description for parameter 1.
// @param parameter2 Description for parameter 2.
//
// @return Description of optional return value.
Add unit tests for all newly added code and make sure that algorithmic "improvements" generalize and actually improve the results of the pipeline on a variety of datasets.
The software is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later. If you are interested in licensing the software for commercial purposes, without disclosing your modifications, please contact the authors.
COLMAP - Structure-from-Motion and Multi-View Stereo.
Copyright (C) 2016 Johannes L. Schoenberger <jsch at inf.ethz.ch>
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