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COLMAP - Structure-from-Motion and Multi-View Stereo
https://github.com/colmap/colmap

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COLMAP

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About

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COLMAP is a general-purpose Structure-from-Motion (SfM) and Multi-View Stereo

(MVS) 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 new BSD 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={Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},

        year={2016},

    }



    @inproceedings{schoenberger2016mvs,

        author={Sch\"{o}nberger, Johannes Lutz and Zheng, Enliang and Pollefeys, Marc and Frahm, Jan-Michael},

        title={Pixelwise View Selection for Unstructured Multi-View Stereo},

        booktitle={European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},

        year={2016},

    }



If you use the image retrieval / vocabulary tree engine, please also cite:



    @inproceedings{schoenberger2016vote,

        author={Sch\"{o}nberger, Johannes Lutz and Price, True and Sattler, Torsten and Frahm, Jan-Michael and Pollefeys, Marc},

        title={A Vote-and-Verify Strategy for Fast Spatial Verification in Image Retrieval},

        booktitle={Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV)},

        year={2016},

    }



The latest source code is available at https://github.com/colmap/colmap. COLMAP

builds on top of existing works and when using specific algorithms within

COLMAP, please also cite the original authors, as specified in the source code,

and consider citing relevant third-party dependencies (most notably

ceres-solver, poselib, sift-gpu, vlfeat).



Download

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* Binaries for **Windows** and other resources can be downloaded

  from https://github.com/colmap/colmap/releases.

* Binaries for **Linux/Unix/BSD** are available at

  https://repology.org/metapackage/colmap/versions.

* Pre-built **Docker** images are available at

  https://hub.docker.com/r/colmap/colmap.

* **Python bindings** are available at https://pypi.org/project/pycolmap.

* To **build from source**, please see https://colmap.github.io/install.html.



Getting Started

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1. Download pre-built binaries or build from source.

2. Download one of the provided datasets at https://demuc.de/colmap/datasets/

   or use your own images.

3. Use the **automatic reconstruction** to easily build models

   with a single click or command.



Documentation

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



Support

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Please, use GitHub Discussions at https://github.com/colmap/colmap/discussions

for questions and the GitHub issue tracker at https://github.com/colmap/colmap

for bug reports, feature requests/additions, etc.



Acknowledgments

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COLMAP was originally written by [Johannes Schönberger](https://demuc.de/) with

funding provided by his PhD advisors Jan-Michael Frahm and Marc Pollefeys.

The team of core project maintainers currently includes

[Johannes Schönberger](https://github.com/ahojnnes),

[Paul-Edouard Sarlin](https://github.com/sarlinpe), and

[Shaohui Liu](https://github.com/B1ueber2y).



The Python bindings in PyCOLMAP were originally added by

[Mihai Dusmanu](https://github.com/mihaidusmanu),

[Philipp Lindenberger](https://github.com/Phil26AT), and

[Paul-Edouard Sarlin](https://github.com/sarlinpe).



The project has also benefitted from countless community contributions, including

bug fixes, improvements, new features, third-party tooling, and community

support (special credits to [Torsten Sattler](https://tsattler.github.io)).



Contribution

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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.



License

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The COLMAP library is licensed under the new BSD license. Note that this text

refers only to the license for COLMAP itself, independent of its thirdparty

dependencies, which are separately licensed. Building COLMAP with these

dependencies may affect the resulting COLMAP license.



    Copyright (c), ETH Zurich and UNC Chapel Hill.

    All rights reserved.



    Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without

    modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:



        * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright

          notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.



        * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright

          notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the

          documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.



        * Neither the name of ETH Zurich and UNC Chapel Hill nor the names of

          its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived

          from this software without specific prior written permission.



    THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS"

    AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE

    IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE

    ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE

    LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR

    CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF

    SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS

    INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN

    CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE)

    ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE

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