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Labs AV Photogrammetry 3.0 geometry node

The complete Alicevision photogrammetry pipeline.

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This node is a one node pipeline with Alicevision photogrammetry. Contained in this node are all the steps required to use Alicevision for your convenience.

Parameters

Main

Cook

Start the cooking process for this step.

Manual Mode

This toggle controls if the node should automatically recook if any dependencies have changed.

Use Log

This toggle controls if the status of the current node should be printed to the console. This is useful for getting a quick overview of the progress.

Initialize

Project Name

This is the project name that Alicevision will use for creating project files. It is important to have a unique project name per processed object to prevent accidental overwrites.

Cache Directory

This directory will be used to store all the generated data. Removing this directory will undo any progress so far.

Alicevision Directory

This can be used to point to the compiled binaries of Alicevision that should be used for processing.

Default Field of View

Empirical value for the field of view in degree.

Color Mode

This controls if the final mesh should use vertex color or textures.

Images

This multiparm holds all images as entries that need to be processed by Alicevision.

Meshing

Filter Large Triangles Factor

Remove all large triangles. We consider a triangle as large if one edge is bigger than N times the average edge length. Put zero to disable it.

Num of Iterations

Number of smoothing iterations.

Keep Only the Largest Mesh

Keep only the largest connected triangles group.

Texturing

Texture Side

Output texture size.

Texture Downscale

Texture downscale factor.

Texture File Type

Texture File Type.

Fill Holes

Fill Texture holes with plausible values.

Use UDIM UVs

Use UDIM UV mapping.

Advanced

Describer Types

Describer types used to describe an image.

Describer Preset

Control the ImageDescriber configuration (low, medium, normal, high, ultra). Configuration “ultra” can take long time !

Force CPU Extraction

Use only CPU feature extraction.

Max Num of Matches

Maximum number of matches per image pair (and per feature type).

Downscale

Image downscale factor.

Outputs

Textured Geometry

This is the final geometry produced by Alicevision.

Pointcloud

This is the pointcloud generated by the meshing step.

Cameras

These are the camera transforms that have been extracted from the images processed.

Examples

Geometry nodes