3.8

What's Changed

• Updating geo-registration doc. by @ferreram in #1410
• Adding user-specified option for reconstructing purely planar scene. … by @ferreram in #1408
• Only apply sqlite vacuum command when elements are deleted from the database. by @ferreram in #1414
• Replace Graclus with Metis dependency by @ahojnnes in #1422
• Update ceres download URL in build script by @whuaegeanse in #1430
• Fix type errors when building colmap with build.py in windows by @whuaegeanse in #1440
• Fix bug in the computation of the statistics Global/Local BA by @whuaegeanse in #1449
• Add RefineGeneralizedAbsolutePose and covariance estimation by @skydes in #1464
• Update docker image definition by @ahojnnes in #1478
• Upgrade deprecated ceres parameterizations to manifolds by @ahojnnes in #1477
• Use masks for stereo fusion on automatic reconstruction by @ibrarmalik in #1488
• fix random seed set failed from external interface by @WZG3661 in #1498
• Replace deprecated Eigen nonZeros() call for most recent Eigen versions. by @nackjaylor in #1494
• Fix ceres-solver folder name by @f-fl0 in #1501
• Improved convergence criterion for XYZ to ELL conversion by @ahojnnes in #1505
• Fix bug in the function SetPtr of Bitmap by @whuaegeanse in #1525
• Avoid the calling of copy constructor/assignment by @whuaegeanse in #1524
• Avoid calling copy constructors of FeatureKeypoints and FeatureDescriptors by @whuaegeanse in #1540
• Initialize freeimage if statically linked by @ahojnnes in #1549
• Avoid hard crash if Jacobian matrix is rank deficient by @mihaidusmanu in #1557
• visualize_model.py: added FULL_OPENCV model by @soeroesg in #1552
• Update vcpkg version to fix CI pipeline by @ahojnnes in #1568
• Replace deprecated Mac OS 10.15 with Mac OS 12 build in CI by @ahojnnes in #1569
• Fix inconsistent between the actual executed image reader option and the saved project.ini file by @xuchenghust in #1564
• checkout the expected version of ceres solver by @scott-vsi in #1576
• use default qt5 brew install directory #1573 by @catapulta in #1574
• Fix image undistortion with nested image folders by @ahojnnes in #1606
• Fix source file permissions by @ahojnnes in #1607
• Fixed the collection of arguments in colmap.bat by @tdegraaff in #1121
• Add OpenMP to COLMAP_EXTERNAL_LIBRARIES if enabled by @logchan in #1632
• Fix output tile reconstructions are the same as the input reconstruction in RunModelSplitter (#1513) by @Serenitysmk in #1531
• add libmetis-dev to solve METIS_INCLUDE_DIRS. by @FavorMylikes in #1672
• Update install.rst by @tomer-grin in #1671
• Update freeimage links. by @Yulv-git in #1675
• fix small typo by @skal65535 in #1668
• Update build.py with new glew link by @aghand0ur in #1658
• Add use_cache in fusion options GUI by @hrflr in #1655
• Add CI pipeline for Ubuntu 22.04 by @ahojnnes in #1688
• Avoid unnecessary copies of data by @ahojnnes in #1691
• Reduce memory allocations in correspondence graph search by @ahojnnes in #1692
• Use FindCUDAToolkit when available. by @hanseuljun in #1693
• Fixed a crash due to inconsistent undistortion by @SomeAlphabetGuy in #1698
• Add CUDA Ubuntu 22.04 CI build by @ahojnnes in #1705
• Delete the redundancy install of libmetis-dev by @thomas-graphopti in #1721
• Fix broken loading of image masks on macOS by @buesma in #1639
• Update install instructions with latest hints and known issues by @ahojnnes in #1736
• Modernize smart pointer initialization, fix alloc/dealloc mismatch by @ahojnnes in #1737
• Fix typo in cli.rst by @ojhernandez in #1747
• Fix inconsistent image resizing between CPU/GPU implementations of SIFT by @Yzhbuaa in #1642
• Reduce number of SIFT test features to make tests run under WSL by @ahojnnes in #1748
• Tag documentation version with dev by @ahojnnes in #1749
• Update copyright to 2023 by @ahojnnes in #1750
• Fix max image dimension for positive first_octave by @ahojnnes in #1751
• Fix SIFT GPU match creation by @ahojnnes in #1757
• Fix SIFT tests for OpenGL by @ahojnnes in #1762
• Suppress CUDA stack size warning for ptxas by @ahojnnes in #1770
• Simplify CUDA CMake configuration by @ahojnnes in #1776
• Fixes for CUDA compilation by @ahojnnes in #1777
• Improvements to dockerfile and build pipeline by @ahojnnes in #1778
• Explicitly require CMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES to be defined by @ahojnnes in #1781
• Depend on system installed FLANN by @ahojnnes in #1782
• Option to store relative pose between two cameras in database by @yanxke in #1774
• Depend on system installed SQLite3 by @ahojnnes in #1783

New Contributors

• @ibrarmalik made their first contribution in #1488
• @WZG3661 made their first contribution in #1498
• @nackjaylor made their first contribution in #1494
• @f-fl0 made their first contribution in #1501
• @soeroesg made their first contribution in #1552
• @xuchenghust made their first contribution in #1564
• @scott-vsi made their first contribution in #1576
• @catapulta made their first contribution in #1574
• @tdegraaff made their first contribution in #1121
• @logchan made their first contribution in #1632
• @Serenitysmk made their first contribution in #1531
• @FavorMylikes made their first contribution in #1672
• @tomer-grin made their first contribution in #1671
• @Yulv-git made their first contribution in #1675
• @skal65535 made their first contribution in #1668
• @aghand0ur made their first contribution in #1658
• @hrflr made their first contribution in #1655
• @hanseuljun made their first contribution in #1693
• @SomeAlphabetGuy made their first contribution in #1698
• @thomas-graphopti made their first contribution in #1721
• @buesma made their first contribution in #1639
• @ojhernandez made their first contribution in #1747
• @Yzhbuaa made their first contribution in #1642
• @yanxke made their first contribution in #1774

Full Changelog: 3.7...3.8