/uavmvs

UAV capture planning for MVS reconstructions

Primary LanguageC++OtherNOASSERTION

UAVMVS - UAV capture planning for MVS reconstructions

The algorithm was published in Dec. 2018 at SIGGRAPH Asia. Please refer to our project website (https://vccimaging.org/Publications/Smith2018UAVPathPlanning/) for the paper and further information.

Dependencies

The code and the build system have the following prerequisites:

  • git
  • make
  • gcc (>= 5.4.0)
  • cuda (>= 8.0.0)
  • libglfw, libGL, libgomp, libpng, libjpg, libtiff

Furthermore the code depends on the following projects, some with adaptions so please clone and build the respective branches:

Execution

Starting any application without parameters will print a description and an explanation of the parameters.

Compilation

  1. git clone https://github.com/nmoehrle/uavmvs.git
  2. cd uavmvs
  3. premake5 gmake
  4. cd build
  5. make (or make -j for parallel compilation)

License and Citing

Our software is licensed under the BSD 3-Clause license, for more details see the LICENSE.txt file.

If you use our capture planning code for research purposes, please cite our paper:

@inproceedings{Smith2018Aerial,
  title={Aerial Path Planning for Urban Scene Reconstruction:
    a Continuous Optimization Method and Benchmark},
  author={Smith, Neil and Moehrle, Nils and Goesele, Michael and Heidrich, Wolfgang},
  year={2018},
  publisher={ACM}
}

Contact

If you have trouble compiling or using this software, if you found a bug or if you have an important feature request, please use the issue tracker of github: https://github.com/nmoehrle/uavmvs