Photogrammetry Testing – 3DF Zephyr Pro [commercial software]

Testing 3DF Zephyr Pro

29/05/2019 5

Photogrammetry Testing – Reality Capture [commercial software]

Photogrammetry Testing: Reality Capture [Disclosure: I asked Capturing Reality for a temporary license to access the full version so I could test it and export models, they kindly agreed and gave me a 1 month license. This in no way affects my review] Ok, let’s get this out of the way – Reality Capture is... Continue Reading →

17/05/2019 16

Photogrammetry testing – Commercial software incoming

This is something of a pre-series post, explaining that over the coming weeks I'll be reviewing commercial photogrammetry software.

10/05/2019 2

Small object photogrammetry – how to take photos

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 students carrying it out for the first time need to be shown how to take... Continue Reading →

16/01/2019 14

Changing default values in AliceVision Meshroom

I previously gave you a little script that can run AliceVision MeshRoom from the command line, speeding things up when you have a lot of photos. However, I rely on some of the parameters being changed, specifically I like to use guided matching and LCSM texturing (because it gives me more robust SFM reconstructions, and... Continue Reading →

14/12/2018 7

Batch Script for running AliceVision MeshRoom from command line

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 double clicked to run the full Meshroom process and produce a filtered, textured model without... Continue Reading →

13/12/2018 2

Getting the most out of AliceVision Meshroom – tweaking parameters

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 software for producing photogrammetric models. It’s generally not as fast as COLMAP, but I like... Continue Reading →

25/10/2018 14

My Small Object Photogrammetry setup

I thought I'd write a quick post about my photogrammetry set-up for small objects, because I've been doing a lot recently, and as a result I've spent some time optimizing my workflow. The long and the short of it is that it looks like this: I've got a small light box from Amazon, which includes... Continue Reading →

24/08/2018 16

Photogrammery testing 14: AliceVision Meshroom

Testing the newly released binaries for AliceVision Meshroom photogrammetry suite.

11/08/2018 28

Photogrammetry Testing 13: Revisiting 3DFZephyr Free (v4.001)

16/07/2018 8

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