Limit Cameras in Build Mesh & Texture

[jeffreyianwilson]

So I am doing some large scale aerial work with a lot of overlap and custom python to split the job into regions.  The problem I am having is a single tile has over 1,000 contributing cameras with most of them distant ones which don't help the mesh and texture quality.  What you end up with is a layered texture map using 1,000 cameras and a very blurry texture despite a VERY accurate alignment.  I have gone through Metashape python api and while you can limit neighbors in build depth map, there is no equivalent for buildModel or buildTexture.

Manually enabling/disabling cameras to 100 to 200 photos as input results in superior mesh and texture output but this needs to be automated as I have 50,000+ 150mp photos to deal with and over 200 regions.

If I don't solve this, it eliminates Metashape as a possible tool for large scale aerial reconstruction.

Jeff

I cannot post images due to sensitive nature of the project unfortunately

[Alexey Pasumansky]

Hello Jeff,

I can suggest to try using Reduce Overlap feature in the Tools menu and choose 3-5 value before building the texture.

[jeffreyianwilson]

Hello Jeff,

I can suggest to try using Reduce Overlap feature in the Tools menu and choose 3-5 value before building the texture.

I completely forgot about that feature, I will give it a try.

Jeff

[lunar]

Hi
 I use simple thing - use properties of "photo" window tab - switch view to miniatures - regulating photo tab size in width. When You have two columns of miniatures, then select entire column !! and disable it. This way You can disable every 2th foto.