Alternatives and detailed information of awesome-photogrammetry

This repo is a collection of AWESOME photogrammetry projects, applications, tools, resources.

Items marked with are open-source software and link to the source code. Items marked with are nonfree and may cost money to use.

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Table of Contents

Definition

Definition of photogrammetry according to K. Schindler and W. Förstner:

"Photogrammetry is the science and technology of obtaining information about the physical environment from images, with a focus on applications in surveying, mapping and high-precision metrology. The aim of photogrammetry is to provide automated or semi-automated procedures for these engineering tasks, with emphasis on a specified accuracy, reliability, and completeness of the information."

Source: Photogrammetry by K. Schindler and W. Förstner (2020). In: Computer Vision: A Reference Guide, 2nd edition.

Photogrammetric software

Agisoft Metashape - Process digital images and generate 3D spatial data
MicMac - A free open-source photogrammetric suite that can be used in a variety of 3D reconstruction scenarios
MVE - Includes Structure from Motion, Multi-View Stereo and Surface Reconstruction
OpenDroneMap - An open source command line toolkit for processing aerial drone imagery
Pix4D - A unique photogrammetry software suite for mobile and drone mapping
RealityCapture - The state-of-the-art photogrammetry software solution that is changing the industry
SURE by nFrames - Software for 3D reconstruction from images with unique performance and flexibility
TeleSculptor - A cross-platform desktop application for photogrammetry
Trimble Inpho - Industry Leading Software for Digital Photogrammetry

Structure from motion (SFM) software

BoofCV - Includes SFM, Multi-View Stereo, Android Support and various calibration tasks
Bundler - SFM system for unordered image collections
COLMAP - Structure-from-Motion and Multi-View Stereo
Meshroom - 3D Reconstruction Software
openMVG - Multiple View Geometry library
openSFM - Structure from Motion library written in Python
VisualSFM - GUI application for 3D reconstruction using SFM

Calibration software

camera_calibration - Accurate geometric camera calibration
kalibr - Multi-camera, visual-inertial and rolling shutter camera calibration toolbox
mrcal - Toolkit for camera calibration and more

Least squares optimization libraries

Ceres solver - C++ library for modeling and solving large, complicated optimization problems
dlib/optimization - C++ toolkit which provides also functions for solving least-squares problems
Eigen - C++ template library for linear algebra with a variety of built-in solvers and wrappers to external solvers
g2o - C++ framework for optimizing graph-based nonlinear error functions
GTSAM - C++ library for factor graphs and bayes networks optimizations towards SLAM, VO and SFM
lmfit - Python package which builds on and extends many of the optimization methods of scipy.optimize
scipy.optimize.least_squares - Powerful least-squares optimization function for python
Matlab/OptimizationToolbox - Toolbox for local optimizations, including functions for solving least squares problems

Datasets and benchmarks

Bundle adjustment in the large - Bundle adjustment data sets for five different scenes (2010)
Hessigheim 3D (H3D) benchmark - Benchmark on semantic segmentation of high-resolution 3D point clouds and textured meshes (2021)