Duplicate Photos / Image overlap question

[Cowboy_2]

Greetings All,

I have obtained a large photos set (~5000 images) of 1km section of river.  The images were acquired using a pole mounted camera about 7 m above the ground.  I have accidentally added duplicate images into the model and now would like to find a way to delete these duplicates.  Does anyone have any shortcuts (maybe python code?) to remove duplicates?  I may have a few hundred duplicates which were accidentally added, and I don't want to remove them individually. 

My second question is about image overlap.  There are several photos with a great deal of overlap (the image footprint was around 6x9m).  Would my model improve in quality if I the removed photos which had too much overlap?  Has anyone done this experiment?  If so how did you achieve this?  Anyone have any code to share?

Thanks much!

[Alexey Pasumansky]

Hello Cowboy_2,

Yes, it is possible to remove the duplicates using Python code.. Something like the following:

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import PhotoScan

doc = PhotoScan.app.document
chunk = doc.activeChunk

photos_list = set()
duplicates = 0

for photo in list(chunk.cameras):

if photo.path in photos_list:
chunk.cameras.remove(photo)
duplicates += 1
else:
photos_list.add(photo.path)

print("Script finished. Removed " + str(duplicates) + " duplicates.")