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Structure-From-Motion Revisited

1 Jun 2016CVPR 2016 6archive 2025-07-28

Johannes L. Schonberger, Jan-Michael Frahm

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.

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
3D Reconstruction DTU COLMAP Acc 0.400 #22 of 24 Archive leaderboard report
3D Reconstruction DTU COLMAP Comp 0.664 #22 of 24 Archive leaderboard report
3D Reconstruction DTU COLMAP Overall 0.532 #22 of 24 Archive leaderboard report
Point Clouds Tanks and Temples COLMAP Mean F1 (Advanced) 27.24 #14 of 21 Archive leaderboard report
Point Clouds Tanks and Temples COLMAP Mean F1 (Intermediate) 42.14 #14 of 21 Archive leaderboard report

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