colmap / colmap

git clone https://github.com/colmap/colmap.git 4.2.1 · 1mo ago

General-purpose Structure-from-Motion and Multi-View Stereo pipeline with a GUI and command-line interface for 3D reconstruction from images.

Why you might care

Use it to reconstruct 3D models and camera poses from ordered or unordered photo collections, with an automatic one-click reconstruction mode. It is a mature, BSD-licensed tool with Windows, Linux, Docker, conda, and Python (pycolmap) distributions, and CUDA or ROCm GPU support.

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Created2014-08-16 (12y ago)

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computer-vision geometry multi-view-stereo reconstruction structure-from-motion

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