Clustering Views for Multi-view Stereo (CMVS)

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MVS reconstructions from four view-clusters
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Union of four reconstructions

Software written by Yasutaka Furukawa


Introduction

Many multi-view stereo (MVS) algorithms do not scale well to a large number of input images (lack of computational and memory resources). This software (CMVS) takes the output of a structure-from-motion (SfM) software as input, then decomposes the input images into a set of image clusters of managable size. An MVS software can be used to process each cluster independently and in parallel, where the union of reconstructions from all the clusters should not miss any details that can be otherwise obtained from the whole image set. CMVS should be used in conjunction with an SfM software Bundler and an MVS software PMVS2 (PMVS version 2). The software package includes all the source code distributed under GPL.

The software was developped when Yasutaka Furukawa was a postdoc at University of Washington under the supervision of Prof. Brian Curless and Prof. Steve Seitz at University of Washington, and Richard Szeliski at Microsoft Research.

Multi-view stereo software PMVS2, which is included in the CMVS package, was developped when Yasutaka Furukawa was a graduate student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the supervision of Prof. Jean Ponce, who was affiliated with University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Ecole Normale Supérieure. Further modifications and enhancements were added when Yasutaka Furukawa was a postdoc at University of Washington.

PMVS2 is used for real production purposes by Industrial Light & Magic, Weta Digital, and Google Inc.


Downloads & Resources

Changchang Wu distributes an automated GUI-based end-to-end 3D reconstruction system from images, which integrates our CMVS and PMVS. I highly recommend you to use our software through his system.

cmvs-fix2.tar.gz (243Mb)
A bug fix in Cbundle::mergeSfMPThread(void) (updated on 3/27/2011)
We thank Romuald Perrot for reporting this bug to us.

cmvs-fix1.tar.gz (243Mb)
A bug fix in Cbundle::setWidthsHeightsLevels in bundle.cc (updated on 7/17/2010).
A bug fix in writePatches2 in patchOrganizerS.cc (updated on 7/13/2010).
CMVS source code.

Documentation
Some other software and libraries are necessary for the installation of CMVS. Please refer to this documentation for more details.

CMVS for Windows by Pierre Moulon.
CMVS Windows binaries and modified source codes. If you use Windows, please use his version.


Gallery

CMVS and PMVS2 are used to obtain reconstructions in the video. Refer to our paper (CVPR 2010) for details.




Terms and Conditions

ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED IS AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK, AND YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF SUCH MATERIAL, INCLUDING ANY DAMAGE RESULTING FROM COMPUTER VIRUSES.

In case you use this software, include an acknowledgement that PMVS2 was developped by Yasutaka Furukawa (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Washington) and Jean Ponce (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ecole Normale Supérieure), where CMVS was developped by Yasutaka Furukawa (University of Washington). In case you use this software for a publication, it is enough to just include citations to our CVPR10 paper (for CMVS) and PAMI paper (for PMVS2) (bibtex).

CMVS (and PMVS2) are distributed under the GNU General Public Licence.
For commercial licensing of the software, please contact Yasutaka Furukawa.


Notes


Links & References


Contact

We appreciate any comments and feedbacks sent to Yasutaka Furukawa. Please use "multi view stereo" as a subject of an email. We have just started distributing this software, and are eager to hear any bug-reports.


Acknowledgements

This work was supported in part by National Science Foundation grant IIS-0811878, SPAWAR, the Office of Naval Research, the University of Washington Animation Research Labs, and Microsoft. We than Sameer Agarwal and Noah Snavely for the datasets, Szymon Rusinkiewicz for Qsplat software, and Michael Goesele for the multi-view stereo software.
Finally, we thank Pierre Moulon for porting our software to Windows.

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