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