jespestana / colmap

COLMAP - Structure-from-Motion

COLMAP

COLMAP is a general-purpose Structure-from-Motion pipeline with a graphical and command-line interface. It offers a wide range of features for reconstruction of ordered and unordered image collections. The software is licensed under the GNU General Public License. If you use this project for your research, please cite:

@inproceedings{schoenberger2016sfm,
    author = {Sch\"{o}nberger, Johannes Lutz and Frahm, Jan-Michael},
    title = {Structure-from-Motion Revisited},
    booktitle={IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
    year={2016},
}

The source code is available at https://github.com/colmap/colmap. COLMAP builds on top of existing work and when using specific algorithms within COLMAP, please also consider citing the original works, as specified in the source code.

Getting Started

1. Download the pre-built binaries from http://people.inf.ethz.ch/jschoenb/colmap/ or build the library manually as described in the documentation.
2. Watch the short introductory video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-EC0DzeVEU or read the tutorial in the documentation for more details.

Documentation

The documentation is available at https://colmap.github.io/.

Support

Please, use the GitHub issue tracker at https://github.com/colmap/colmap for bug reports, questions, suggestions, etc.

Acknowledgments

The library was written by Johannes L. Schönberger (http://people.inf.ethz.ch/jschoenb/). Funding was provided by his PhD advisor Jan-Michael Frahm (http://frahm.web.unc.edu/) through the grants NSF No. IIS-1349074, No. CNS-1405847, and the MITRE Corp.

Contribution

Contributions (bug reports, bug fixes, improvements, etc.) are very welcome and should be submitted in the form of new issues and/or pull requests on GitHub.

Please, adhere to the Google coding style guide:

http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.html

by using the provided ".clang-format" file.

Document functions, methods, classes, etc. with inline documentation strings describing the API, using the following format:

// Short description.
//
// Longer description with a few sentences and multiple lines.
//
// @param parameter1            Description for parameter 1.
// @param parameter2            Description for parameter 2.
//
// @return                      Description of optional return value.

Add unit tests for all newly added code and make sure that algorithmic "improvements" generalize and actually improve the results of the pipeline on a variety of datasets.

License

The software is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later. If you are interested in licensing the software for commercial purposes, without disclosing your modifications, please contact the authors.

COLMAP - Structure-from-Motion.
Copyright (C) 2016  Johannes L. Schoenberger <jsch at cs.unc.edu>

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