Overview of different photogrammetry programs
Channel: mardy.it
Date: 2017-03-24

An overview of different software tools which can be used to obtain a 3D model from a set of photographs. This procedure (or parts of it) can go under the names "photogrammetry", "Structure from motion", and "Multi-view stereo".
The goal of this presentation is just to illustrate a few of these programs: what they can do, and how they can be used to quickly get a result with minimal user effort; it's not meant to be a technical comparison of these tools' effectiveness.

The photos used for the reconstruction in this video are publicly available:
https://github.com/rperrot/ReconstructionDataSet/tree/master/MirebeauStHilaireStatue

More information about the Snap packaging format:
https://snapcraft.io

Links to the tools:
VisualSFM - http://ccwu.me/vsfm/index.html
MeshLab - http://www.meshlab.net/
Bundler - http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~snavely/bundler/
CMVS - http://www.di.ens.fr/cmvs/
COLMAP - https://colmap.github.io/
MVE - http://www.gcc.tu-darmstadt.de/home/proj/mve/
MVS-Texturing - http://www.gcc.tu-darmstadt.de/home/proj/texrecon/
openMVG - http://www.gcc.tu-darmstadt.de/home/proj/texrecon/
OpenMVS - http://cdcseacave.github.io/openMVS/
Theia - http://www.theia-sfm.org/