photogrammetry_evaluations

This repository contains tools for evaluating photogrammetry results using COLMAP

Citation

This package was developed for the paper listed below. If you find this package useful, please consider citing the following.

• Lim, Jaeyoung, Nicholas Lawrance, Florian Achermann, Thomas Stastny, Rik Bähnemann, and Roland Siegwart. "Fisher information based active planning for aerial photogrammetry." In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 1249-1255. IEEE, 2023. [paper]

@inproceedings{lim2023fisher,
  title={Fisher information based active planning for aerial photogrammetry},
  author={Lim, Jaeyoung and Lawrance, Nicholas and Achermann, Florian and Stastny, Thomas and B{\"a}hnemann, Rik and Siegwart, Roland},
  booktitle={2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  pages={1249--1255},
  year={2023},
  organization={IEEE}
}

Setup

We use COLMAP for the Multiview Stereo pipeline. To install, follow the installation instructions.

git clone https://github.com/colmap/colmap.git
cd colmap
git checkout dev
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make -j
sudo make install

Photogrammetry Reconstructions

Photogrammetric reconstruction for a dataset can be run with the following command

make reconstruct [path=<path to dataset>]

Incremental Photogrammetry Reconstructions

Photogrammetric reconstruction with incrementally increasing the number of images can be run with the following command

make increment [path=<path to dataset>]

The reconstruction results can be found in the ./output directory at the root of the repository.

To clean the results, run

make clean