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COLMAP

Description

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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.

Environment Modules

Run module spider colmap to find out what environment modules are available for this application.

Environment Variables

  • HPC_COLMAP_DIR - installation directory
  • HPC_COLMAP_BIN - executables directory

Citation

If you publish research that uses colmap you have to cite it as follows:

  • Schönberger, J. L., & Frahm, J.-M. (2016). Structure-from-Motion revisited. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) (pp. 4104–4113). https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2016.445

  • Schönberger, J. L., Zheng, E., Pollefeys, M., & Frahm, J.-M. (2016). Pixelwise view selection for unstructured multi-view stereo. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) (pp. 501–518). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46487-9_31

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

  • Schönberger, J. L., Price, T., Sattler, T., Frahm, J.-M., & Pollefeys, M. (2016). A vote-and-verify strategy for fast spatial verification in image retrieval. In Proceedings of the Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) (pp. 321–337). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54187-7_20

Categories

modeling