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General / Re: Agisoft Vs Competitors

« on: December 08, 2015, 09:05:47 PM »

You're completely right! I've been testing their software and I must say it is very impressive!

Just to make the Agisoft team aware of it, a dataset (+ 8000 aerial 24mpx images) took a couple of days to align with PS while it took only 3 hours to align with capturingreality.

Time for some serious optimizations in Photoscan... 

Time is money!

How about feature detection and matching on gpu basis? 

Some users think Photoscan is the King of photogrammetry! 

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General / Re: Agisoft Vs Competitors

« on: December 05, 2015, 11:05:08 PM »

I have tried the demo version. Just wow 
Nice mesh almost without artefacts and without any masking of the images. Let alone timing.
Stunning
I hope Agisoft will be able to reconsider their engine to achive same results.

Also there is a demo from ten24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWBsMaPPWTU as they wrote it is raw data without any editing. Firstly I didn't believe it. I learned about the software from this demo yesterday and was playing around with it all night and day.
Now I love and hate it xD
Hate to know there is something much better than your workflow but it is not in production yet. I really hope Agisoft will react fast.

I think once CapturingReality prices their product the same way as Agisoft, Agisoft will start facing a challenge on the market share!

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General / Re: Agisoft Vs Competitors

« on: December 05, 2015, 10:57:01 PM »

Interesting! Finally some competition for Agisoft... 
Though not quite as feature-rich and polished as Agisoft.
Applied for Demo-version.

well, their engine is superior(much faster than Agisoft)! They can add features later on!

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General / Re: Agisoft Vs Competitors

« on: October 28, 2015, 01:40:22 AM »

found this article:
http://www.pi3dscan.com/index.php/instructions/item/agisoft-vs-capturingreality

what do you think?

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General / Re: Agisoft PhotoScan in Media

« on: April 23, 2015, 09:53:56 AM »

Games:
The Talos Principle
http://blog.xsolla.com/2014/08/19/gamescom-2014-croteam-on-developing-the-talos-principle/
Rustclad
https://skulltheatre.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/photogrammetry-in-video-games-frequently-asked-questions/

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General / Agisoft PhotoScan in Media

« on: April 21, 2015, 05:14:29 PM »

Hi to all,
It is clear that the showcase section hasn’t updated for a long time. So, I decided to create this topic so that anybody can post links to projects that agisoft photoscan has been used in, specially in media industry: films, TV-series, animations, games, music, commercials,...

Here are some from Photoscan wiki page:
Games:
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
http://www.theastronauts.com/2014/03/visual-revolution-vanishing-ethan-carter/
War Thunder
http://www.ten24.info/?p=1942
Halo 4
http://www.ten24.info/?mtheme_portfolio=halo-4-spartan-ops-3d-scanning
Cyberpunk 2077
https://www.behance.net/gallery/Cyberpunk-2077/6573211
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQMbxzTUuSg
Unreal Engine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clakekAHQx0

Films:
Chappie
http://www.cgw.com/Publications/CGW/2015/Volume-38-Issue-2-Mar-Apr-2015-/Creative-Robot.aspx

TV-series:
The Strain
http://cinefex.com/blog/strain-vfx/
The Knick
http://www.cgw.com/Press-Center/Web-Exclusives/2014/Phosphene-Contributes-VFX-to-The-Knick.aspx

Animations:
White Tiger Legend
http://vfx-recruit.com/blog/?p=199

I will keep updated this topic and your contribution is well-appreciated!

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General / Re: Underlying Algorithms for PhotoScan

« on: April 18, 2015, 10:52:03 AM »

We make use of photoscan to seed our research into light field rendering and digital curation.  As such we often mention photoscan in our research papers as being an incredible tool that puts powerful computer vision algorithms in a simple, easy to use and tune package!

In doing so we've speculated as to the actual algorithms in use under the hood.  Since this is proprietary software that is not open source we don't know for certain what is in use but based on the output generated and the format of the console messages we have been able to make some reasonable deductions.

I'm wondering if you guys (Agisoft) would be willing to officially confirm what general algorithms you use, minus all the details that are trade secrets of course (you wield all the algorithms way better than any other software out there and I don't want to undermine you ability to make money off of that).

Here are some of the things I've assumed up to now:

• Some form of SIFT or SURF must be in use to identify features up front along with descriptors for matching
• Bundle adjust in some form must be used to fit the camera model for each view and get accurate camera poses and the sparse point cloud (The console output also suggests this is an SfM process but I don't know enough here to deduce anything more specific)
• The dense cloud reconstruction must be some form of MVS disparity calculation, again I don't know enough to deduce more than that
• The mesh reconstruction is clearly the free implementation of screened poisson surface reconstruction available here: http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~misha/Code/PoissonRecon/Version6.13/
• Texture generation, I have no idea how this is done, if there is an appropriate research paper about it, especially the color correction (which at least also seems to be utilizing bundle adjust but I have no background here to deduce more)

Anyways, just wondering if you can share more so we can talk about it more precisely in academic circles where they care about these sorts of things.

Thanks!
Seth Berrier

It would be cool if you can mention which institute you are working with? and if you provide links to those papers!  You may want to add them to AgiSoft Wiki:
1. http://wiki.agisoft.com/wiki/Main_Page
or
2. http://www.agisoft.ru/w/index.php?title=Main_Page

Note: don't expect Agisoft to provide any further details after 2011 post . Many companies play catch up - mainly Autodesk .

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General / Re: Underlying Algorithms for PhotoScan

« on: April 17, 2015, 08:49:38 PM »

check here:
http://www.agisoft.com/forum/index.php?topic=89.0

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General / Re: Agisoft Vs Competitors

« on: April 11, 2015, 07:30:59 PM »

Hi,

Why Autodesk has so many products

I'm just happy they did not purchase Agisoft/Photoscan already.

1 - Why (what is the reason for that)?
2 - Did Autodesk offer that to Agisoft?
3 - How Agisoft can compete with so many products out there?

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General / Re: Agisoft Vs Competitors

« on: April 11, 2015, 10:18:37 AM »

Hi,

Why Autodesk has so many products?
- ImageModeler
- Recap
- Memento
- 123D Catch
- Photofly (dead project)

- Does Autodesk face a challenge to make a single competitive product?
- Where Autodesk stands in this market?