Structure-from-Motion Revisited

Authors

Johannes L. Schonberger, Jan-Michael Frahm

Year

2016

Conference Paper

Algorithm

COLMAP SfM

Source

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Identifiers

DOI 10.1109/CVPR.2016.445

Abstract¶

Incremental Structure-from-Motion is a prevalent strategy for 3D reconstruction from unordered image collections. While incremental reconstruction systems have tremendously advanced in all regards, robustness, accuracy, completeness, and scalability remain the key problems towards building a truly general-purpose pipeline. We propose a new SfM technique that improves upon the state of the art to make a further step towards this ultimate goal. The full reconstruction pipeline is released to the public as an open-source implementation.

Summary¶

Revisits incremental SfM as a complete, robust pipeline, combining geometric verification, careful triangulation, image registration, and bundle-adjustment decisions. The resulting COLMAP system became a reference open-source implementation for reconstructing large unordered photo collections.