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Structure from Motion

Simon Fuhrmann edited this page Jan 7, 2015 · 7 revisions

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The MVE SfM System

MVE has a built-in, fully featured incremental Structure from Motion system. After creating an initial scene with images and EXIF tags using the makescene application, SfM reconstruction can be performed with the sfmrecon application.

Relevant Literature

  • Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision, 2nd Edition (Hartley & Zisserman, Book, 2003)
  • SIFT: Distinctive Image Features from Scale-Invariant Keypoints (Lowe, IJCV 2004)
  • SURF: Speeded Up Robust Features (Bay et al., CVIU 2008)
  • Photo tourism: Exploring photo collections in 3D (Snavely et al., SIGGRAPH 2006)
  • Building Rome in a Day (Agarwal et al., ICCV 2009)
  • Multicore Bundle Adjustment (Wu et al., CVPR 2011)

External SfM Systems

MVE supports import of SfM results from external SfM systems: VisualSFM, Noah Bundler and OpenMVG. The import is handled using the makescene application.