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General / Re: Metashape doesn't read jxl created in Adobe Camera Raw 16.4?

« on: February 14, 2025, 04:43:58 PM »

Thanks for the information.
It seems to be the default behaviour of the libjxl library to mark a fourth layer as transparency. We'll have to check, how to change that.

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General / Re: Metashape doesn't read jxl created in Adobe Camera Raw 16.4?

« on: February 10, 2025, 08:31:14 PM »

Hi Alexey,

just saw your reply.
I answered via email and also shared a sharepoint folder with you, so you can download the images.

Thanks!

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General / Re: Metashape doesn't read jxl created in Adobe Camera Raw 16.4?

« on: January 09, 2025, 03:06:42 AM »

Hi Alexey,

I can confirm, that loading of jxl Files works again in 2.2.
However, loading images with more than three bands seems to be faulty. We're trying to load an image with 4 bands (RGBI) but Metashape says it only has 3 bands. The tiff file works fine with all 4 bands.
The JXL file shows all 4 bands in other software like GIMP.

This seems to be a bug.

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General / Re: How to reduce size of generated DEM geotiff

« on: February 10, 2023, 04:07:13 PM »

Thanks for bringing up this discussion!

As far as I understand it, the DEM geotiff basically stores a 32bit float value for every "pixel".
An Ortho in contrast has 24bit per pixel (8bit for R, G, B each + sometimes alpha) - but orthos can be compressed with extremely efficient lossy codecs like jpeg(XL) or webp.
The DEM in contrast can only be compressed losslessly.

In order to save more space, it would be amazing to have the option to store the data in half-precission 16bit-floats for example. Or even quantizise further down and map it to 8 bit integer.

Actually JPEG XL could also be the solution here...
It allows an arbitrary number of channels 1 to 4000+ and each of them can have either binary or integers and floats up to 64 bit. It also allows lossy compression even on floats...

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Feature Requests / Re: Add AVIF support

« on: October 12, 2021, 03:45:54 PM »

Seems like there's another very promising image format coming.
According to the latest changelogs, experimental support for JPG XL was added. I'm actually quite happy with that!

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Bug Reports / Re: EXIF Information not detected in WEBP images

« on: July 09, 2021, 05:40:15 PM »

Hi, I just once again wanted to follow up, if this ticket gets acknoledged or if anybody is working on this?
Thanks

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Feature Requests / Re: Export Orthomosaic with WEBP compression in Mbtiles or Geopackages

« on: May 12, 2021, 05:52:44 PM »

Same for GeoTiff export.
It seems like the GeoTiff standard also includes webp encoding now.
https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/gtiff.html

That would massively reduce the data size for many of your users!

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Bug Reports / Re: GeoTIFF Problems with several layers

« on: April 16, 2021, 12:26:02 PM »

Hi Alexey,
yes the alpha channel is enabled in the export.

Best, David

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Bug Reports / GeoTIFF Problems with several layers

« on: April 15, 2021, 03:08:21 PM »

I have a RGB+NIR orthomosaic and when I export it, it seams to have some faulty  encoding:

Every further processing step in gdal resports:
TIFFReadDirectory:Sum of Photometric type-related color channels and ExtraSamples doesn't match SamplesPerPixel. Defining non-color channels as ExtraSamples.

So there seems to be a problem in how the image is stored.
I'm running 1.7.3 build 12136

Best, David

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Python and Java API / Re: Standalone Module Use in a Docker Container

« on: April 01, 2021, 02:27:05 PM »

Hi @bvriens and @bbbares!

I just wanted to ask if you were successful in setting up your projects and if you got everything running in the end?
I'm also interested in setting Metashape up in a docker.

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Feature Requests / Re: pointcloud intensity import and export

« on: March 30, 2021, 04:50:48 PM »

Same here.
We're very glad LAZ imports are possible at all (because LASTools are very outdated and we didn't find any alternatives)
but it would be much better if we could also filter by intensity, because then we could seperate tree canopies from ground reflections.

Adding this feature would very much be appreciated!

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Feature Requests / Export Orthomosaic with WEBP compression in Mbtiles or Geopackages

« on: March 17, 2021, 10:35:08 PM »

Both the MBTiles and the Geopackage standard supports WEBP for the embedded image format and Metashape already includes the WEBP driver (for importing images).
Being able to export MBTiles/Geopackages with WEBP compression brings the added benefit of both having an alpha layer (like in PNG) and better compression compared to JPG.

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General / Re: Agisoft Accuracy

« on: March 10, 2021, 12:25:38 PM »

I'd say this question can't be answered as it depends on many factors which are not under Agisoft's control, like image quality terrain structure, flight lines, stereo angles e.g.
We benchmarked a couple of softwares and for us Metashape had by far the best and most robust results.

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Bug Reports / Re: 1.7.1 fails to build depth maps with same amount of VRAM as 1.6.5

« on: March 09, 2021, 07:36:59 PM »

Perfect, glad to hear that! Looking forward to the next point release then! You probably can't give an ETA right now, can you?

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Bug Reports / Re: 1.7.1 fails to build depth maps with same amount of VRAM as 1.6.5

« on: March 05, 2021, 12:14:46 AM »

I attached the logs of a recent run of a smaller project. This contains only 45 cameras but one of the GPU fails anyways.
This runs in ultra settings.