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General / Re: The High-end workstation or server for Agisoft PhotoScan Pro?

« on: February 18, 2014, 12:43:55 PM »

The specs. are :

INTEL i7 4930K 3.4 GHz Socket 2011 12MB 6 Core
ASUS P9X79  X79, DDR3,  Socket 2011, CrossFireX & SLI
KINGSTON 32 GB DDR3 2400 MHZ CL11 XMP HYPERX KHX24C11T3K4/32X
SEAGATE ST2000DX001   2 TB SSHD SATA III 64 MB 7200 rpm hibrit
Sapphire Radeon Vapor-X R9 280X OC 3GB DDR5 384 Bit PCI (11221-02-40G)
AeroCool XPREDATOR 1100W 80+ Plus Gold ,Big Tower

The good thing about the system is,
Support for up to 64GB of system memory with an 8-DIMM design.
Currently I am using 32GB, so I have 4 DIMM slots are available for the future upgrade..

I can get minimum sth like this without making CPU working (High details)

Device 1 performance: 765.774 million samples/sec (Hawaii)
Device 2 performance: 762.169 million samples/sec (Hawaii)
Total performance: 1527.94 million samples/sec

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General / Re: The High-end workstation or server for Agisoft PhotoScan Pro?

« on: February 18, 2014, 12:31:20 PM »

Hi Tom,

When I was writing about this topic, I meant the NVIDIA® Quadro® 6000 professional graphics cards.

However, as Alexey Pasumansky says that, PhotoScan doesn't use double precision calculations, thus the most part of Quadro functionality is not utilized. But single precision floating point calculations at gamer class cards are not slower and usually even faster than on Quadro.

Currently I can say , single precision calculations class GPU cards (GTX780, ATI 7970...etc) can be installed on the server instead of NVIDIA® Quadro® series. Although, the server vendor will not take care of your brand new server. So, it's not a good option.

If you don't want to take the guarantee risk, go for workstation like I did. Unfortunately can't get extreme benefit from CPU calculations.. I can send you my workstation's specs.

Cheers.

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Face and Body Scanning / Re: Automatic Masking

« on: February 14, 2014, 12:29:12 AM »

EMULAT3D

XnView is simple but cool program
Thx.

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Face and Body Scanning / Re: Most reasonable DSLR for multi-cam face capture setup

« on: February 14, 2014, 12:24:20 AM »

hahaha.....    indeed  Lee

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Face and Body Scanning / Re: Automatic Masking

« on: February 11, 2014, 11:17:43 PM »

Hey EMULAT3D,

Thx for your help indeed.... 
I will give a go

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Face and Body Scanning / Re: Automatic Masking

« on: February 11, 2014, 05:45:26 PM »

There is problem with SmartShooter.
It changes the name of the photos.  ones you snap photos for masking,  in the second snap  the same frames being snapped with different names and it makes finding mask photos harder..  Is there any way to do so?    Also Why agisoft doesnt select masks photos by pixels automatically ? 

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Face and Body Scanning / Re: Automatic Masking

« on: February 10, 2014, 04:54:58 PM »

Hi buddy,

Please have a look at this topic.
http://www.agisoft.ru/forum/index.php?topic=1920.msg10264#msg10264

Thanks

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Face and Body Scanning / Re: Automatic Masking

« on: February 09, 2014, 10:21:49 AM »

Hi phangster,

I use wired transfer. Never looked up for wireless one.
Is there any solution like this? if so, how much will it cost ? 

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General / Re: Fixing meshes and retexturing

« on: February 04, 2014, 11:37:45 PM »

There you go, Thx to Lee...

And for everyone see tutorials from Lee, about the workflow what he use. a bit nudity, but think you wil like it

http://www.triplegangers.com/index.php/blog/cat/tutorials/post/tutorial-series-part03-01/


Lee, THANX for this, and as you see there are already few comments on the videos how to improve things....... need to test it on our datasets......

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Face and Body Scanning / Automatic Masking - Solved

« on: January 31, 2014, 09:40:00 PM »

Hi All,

I could do with some help here,

As Alexey said before,
"  PhotoScan has mask-by-background
feature, that allows automasking for fixed cameras, providing that "empty" shots for every
camera are taken without the present of the object of interest. The background should be
kept unchanged during object shooting;  "

So is there any tutorial about this? I have 42 fixed cameras but having difficulties.
What are the steps for automasking ?

Also Shall I have stereo pairs?   what do you recommend for camera placement and zone overlap.

Thanks

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General / Re: Footwear Chunk Alignment Questions

« on: January 29, 2014, 01:21:13 AM »

Mate,

Vertical,  horizontal,  upside- down position .....etc.   Those camera positions don't matter in this case.
Just keep the photos original.  PhotoScan will recognize each pixel and it will align the photos.
Making overlap is important. %20 - %30 overlap is needed.
 

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General / Re: Footwear Chunk Alignment Questions

« on: January 28, 2014, 11:28:54 PM »

Hi BizzleZ,

if you take some photos like shown below, you won't need to merge ...etc.
PhotoScan must align the photos. 

Good luck,

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Face and Body Scanning / Re: How much light is needed?

« on: January 26, 2014, 05:20:54 PM »

The semi-circle is good. Will you upgrade the number of T3s later on?
Did you have any problem to connect cameras to pc? How do you connect, single pc?
I have some problems with my long USB cables :=)

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Face and Body Scanning / Re: How much light is needed?

« on: January 26, 2014, 03:43:49 PM »

EMULAT3D Thanks for your reply,

So now you have 4 x 360watts flashes. I believe good upgrade
Any other light source ? Led , projectors or etc. ?
By the way, how many cameras do you have?

Thanks

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Face and Body Scanning / Re: How much light is needed?

« on: January 25, 2014, 09:10:32 PM »

Hey Guys,

I have been doing some experiments with two studio flashes (360w) to illuminate face captures. However, I have been only able to capture at 1/8 shutter speed, with an ISO of 200 and an aperture of 13 (to minimize DOF). My question is, how are some capturing at 1/10,000?! Even with 1/1000 I have a close to black image, how much light is actually being fired into to the scene for illumination? Any insight would be greatly appreciated. 

Thanks,
Corey

EMULAT3D

What settings did you do for 360 watts flashes?  Iso100, aperture13, 0,5sec. shutter speed ?