Photogrammetry Testing: Agisoft Metashape [commercial software]

Photogrammetry testing: Agisoft Metashape. Affordable and good, there's a reason this is the go-to software.

27/06/2019 20

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 18

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

Free software for CT segmentation (2019)

Continuing a common theme of this blog – free or cheap software for scientific purposes, I thought I’d give a quick run-down of the free software available for segmenting CT data into digital models (e.g. objs/stls). This list is by no means comprehensive, but I’ve tried everything here to a reasonable degree. I’m not planning... Continue Reading →

18/02/2019 11

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