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. The software is licensed under the new BSD license. If you use this project for your research, please cite:
@inproceedings{schoenberger2016sfm,
author={Sch\"{o}nberger, Johannes Lutz and Frahm, Jan-Michael},
title={Structure-from-Motion Revisited},
booktitle={Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
year={2016},
}
@inproceedings{schoenberger2016mvs,
author={Sch\"{o}nberger, Johannes Lutz and Zheng, Enliang and Pollefeys, Marc and Frahm, Jan-Michael},
title={Pixelwise View Selection for Unstructured Multi-View Stereo},
booktitle={European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
year={2016},
}
If you use the image retrieval / vocabulary tree engine, please also cite:
@inproceedings{schoenberger2016vote,
author={Sch\"{o}nberger, Johannes Lutz and Price, True and Sattler, Torsten and Frahm, Jan-Michael and Pollefeys, Marc},
title={A Vote-and-Verify Strategy for Fast Spatial Verification in Image Retrieval},
booktitle={Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV)},
year={2016},
}
The latest source code is available at https://github.com/colmap/colmap. COLMAP builds on top of existing works and when using specific algorithms within COLMAP, please also cite the original authors, as specified in the source code.
Executables for Windows and Mac and other resources can be downloaded from https://demuc.de/colmap/. Executables for Linux/Unix/BSD are available at https://repology.org/metapackage/colmap/versions. To build COLMAP from source, please see https://colmap.github.io/install.html.