Awesome-PatchMatch-MVS (Algorithms and Softwares)

• Timeline of PatchMatch MVS Algorithms

  • Accurate multiple view 3d reconstruction using patch-based stereo for large-scale scenes
  • Patchmatch based joint view selection and depthmap estimation
  • Tapa-mvs: Textureless-aware patchmatch multi-view stereo
  • Plane completion and filtering for multi-view stereo reconstruction
  • Planar prior assisted patchmatch multi-view stereo
  • Multi-Scale Geometric Consistency Guided and Planar Prior Assisted Multi-View Stereo - PAMI 2022 [[ACMMP]](https://github.com/GhiXu/ACMMP)
  • Massively parallel multiview stereopsis by surface normal diffusion
  • Multi-Scale Geometric Consistency Guided Multi-View Stereo
  • Pixelwise view selection for unstructured multi-view stereo - - [[poster](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/09/P-2A-41.pdf)]-->
  • Patchmatch stereo-stereo matching with slanted support windows - li-coding/PatchMatchStereo)]

• Multi-view Reconstruction Softwares

  • 大疆智图
  • Open3D
  • MVE - based reconstruction environment)
  • OpenMVG
  • OpenMVS - View Stereo reconstruction library)
  • COLMAP - purpose Structure-from-Motion and Multi-View Stereo pipeline) [[sparse](https://github.com/XYZ-qiyh/colmap_sparse_recon)] [[dense](https://github.com/XYZ-qiyh/colmap_dense_recon)]
  • MeshLab
  • trimesh

• More about PatchMatch for Multi-view Stereo

  • Barnes et al.
  • [Link
  • Shen - us/research/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/PatchMatchStereo_BMVC2011_6MB.pdf).
  • Zheng et al. - wise view selection problem into a variational approximation framework. Following a generalized Expectation Maximization paradigm, they alternate depth update with a PatchMatch propagation scheme, keeping the view selection fixed, and pixel-wise view inference with the forward-backward algorithm, keeping the depth fixed.