New package available for windows

I have just release as a christmas present a new packave that allow to use :
At your convenience :
 1. Bundler + PMVS2
Or
 2. Bundler + CMVS + PMVS2 on each computed cluster.

It could be launch with ease with two script in each case.
1. RunBundler.py + RunPMVS.py
2. RunBundler.py + RunCMVS.py

The archive is here and release with binary for windows 32 and 64 bits !

And for sure I have test the path 2. with a large dataset of 251 photos (2.1 * 2.8 MegaPixels) and I show you the results :

It looks pretty. Is'nt it ! A point cloud of 8 350 379 points !



Python Photogrammetry Toolbox

This project intend to create a python photogrammetry toolbox.

It provides an easy interface to run Bundler + Dense point cloud computation via PMVS2 and CMVS (as WIP).

The main drawbacks of Bundler is that people have to install cygwin to use it and windows.

The advantage of Python is that the scripting langage is multiplatform, so the same code will be ok to run Bundler and the other tools on windows, linux and mac ! No more cygwin... installation.

This project make the Sift detector from VLFeat library works with Bundler. So the toolchain is OpenSource from A to Z. Other modules could be plug into because of the modularity approach that have been choosen.

In a near future we could think in integrate a SIFTGpu matcher into the toolchain.

Running example :
Perform point cloud and camera calibration :

• $ RunBundler.py --photos="./examples/MyPhotos"

Perform dense 3D point cloud computation :

• $ RunPMVS.py --bundlerOutputPath="C:/temp/PreviousLineTempDirectoryPath"

Perform dense 3D point could computation by using Cluster 3D representation of the scene :

• $ RunCMVS.py --bundlerOutputPath="C:/temp/PreviousLineTempDirectoryPath"