I get a lot of contacts asking what’s wrong with their software, and usually the answer is that the photos don’t have good overlap, or differing backgrounds. Sometimes I get directly asked how to take the photos, and certainly my … Continue reading Small object photogrammetry – how to take photos
Here’s a script to reduce the processing of AliceVision’s Meshroom to a single double click. Much as I did for COLMAP, (and here) I’ve put together a batch file that can just be dropped into a folder of photos and … Continue reading Batch Script for running AliceVision MeshRoom from command line
AliceVision’s Meshroom was made available as a windows binary not long ago – I wrote about it shortly after it was released and produced a model using my standard test set using default settings. Since then, it’s become my go-to … Continue reading Getting the most out of AliceVision Meshroom – tweaking parameters
Part 1: Photoscan | Part 2: VisualSFM+MeshRecon | Part 3: VisualSFM+PMVS+Meshlab | Part 4: OpenMVG + MVE | Part 5: MVE | Part 6: ReMake | Part 7: SMVS (+MVE) | Part 8: COLMAP | Part 9: 3DF Zephyr Free … Continue reading Photogrammetry Testing 13: Revisiting 3DFZephyr Free (v4.001)
Given how insanely popular my ‘trying photogrammetry software‘ series has been this year, I thought I’d round up what I’ve tried, what’s worked well, and what hasn’t. Obviously I gave each piece of software in my blog posts a go … Continue reading Free photogrammetry software review: 2017
[updated 17/12/17 to get rid of unnecessary meshlab portion] [updated 01/04/18 – Updated scripts for version 3.4+ of COLMAP] In a vain attempt to be useful, I want to share the script I’m currently using to automate my photogrammetry workflow. … Continue reading Automating free photogrammetry: Scripts I use
Part 1: Photoscan | Part 2: VisualSFM+MeshRecon | Part 3: VisualSFM+PMVS+Meshlab | Part 4: OpenMVG + MVE | Part 5: MVE | Part 6: ReMake | Part 7: SMVS (+MVE) | Part 8: COLMAP | Part 9: 3DF Zephyr Free | Part 10: MicMac | Part 11: VisualSFM + openMVS, & COLMAP + openMVS | Part 12: Revisiting OpenMVG (with OpenMVS) [updated] | Part 13: Revisiting 3DFZephyr Free (v4.001) | Part 14: AliceVision Meshroom Current Recommendation: Part 14, AliceVision Meshroom Here’s the original post, with links to all post This post was updated 27/5/17 – see end of post; turns … Continue reading Photogrammetry Testing 11: VisualSFM & OpenMVS (and COLMAP+openMVS)
