What is the format of Photosynther?

[panovr]

It is said that "makescene can import from the Noah Bundler and the Photosynther format" in mve documentation.
I can find information about Noah Bundler format, but what is the format of Photosynther?

[simonfuhrmann]

The Photosynther format is usually not relevant for end-users as there is no tool that you can download for personal use. The format is very similar and probably inspired by Noah's Bundler format. It is described here and we use it internally to store the SfM points for each dataset:
https://github.com/simonfuhrmann/mve/blob/master/libs/mve/bundlefile.cc#L38

If you have further questions, please refer to our MVE users list mve@gris.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de.

[panovr]

Thanks for the reply!

By the way, how can I join the MVE users list?

2013/4/10 Simon Fuhrmann notifications@github.com

The Photosynther format is usually not relevant for end-users as there is
no tool that you can download for personal use. The format is very similar
and probably inspired by Noah's Bundler format. It is described here and we
use it internally to store the SfM points for each dataset:
https://github.com/simonfuhrmann/mve/blob/master/libs/mve/bundlefile.cc#L38

If you have further questions, please refer to our MVE users list
mve@gris.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de.

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Yili Zhao

[simonfuhrmann]

It's not a mailing list. You don't need to join it, just send your questions.

On another note, MVE will get its own SfM module in near future. Most of the code is already written in a nice new library called "sfm", which is developed in the "sfm" branch:
https://github.com/simonfuhrmann/mve/tree/sfm/libs/sfm

[panovr]

Hi Simon,
thanks for the information!

2013/4/10 Simon Fuhrmann notifications@github.com

It's not a mailing list. You don't need to join it, just send your
questions.

On another note, MVE will get its own SfM module in near future. Most of
the code is already written in a nice new library called "sfm", which is
developed in the "sfm" branch:
https://github.com/simonfuhrmann/mve/tree/sfm/libs/sfm

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Yili Zhao

[panovr]

Hi Simon,
What operating system has MVE mainly been developed on?
Thanks!

2013/4/10 Simon Fuhrmann notifications@github.com

It's not a mailing list. You don't need to join it, just send your
questions.

On another note, MVE will get its own SfM module in near future. Most of
the code is already written in a nice new library called "sfm", which is
developed in the "sfm" branch:
https://github.com/simonfuhrmann/mve/tree/sfm/libs/sfm

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Yili Zhao

[simonfuhrmann]

Most of MVE has been developed on Linux. The SfM code has been developed on OS X. Everything should work on both Linux and OS X. Windows is not a target platform but may still work with minor changes.