Force agisoft to use photos?

[apeech]

I noticed there are quite a few photos that our UAV took that were ignored it seems.

I've attached a picture of an area that shows quite a few "dots" where there was a photo taken, but the image was not used during generation of the tie points and subsequent processes.

Is there any way to figure out why this is the case? Can I force agisoft to use the images?


Thanks.

[stihl]

The cause of this could be down to several things;

-incorrect camera coordinates for the images
-insufficient forward or sideways overlap
-image quality too low (too much motionblur, too bright, too dark, unsharp etc)
-Terrain not optimal (sand/ice/water/trees)

Can you share a sample picture of one of the photo that did not align?

[apeech]

I think I identified why those photos didn't align... for some reason, the camera switched the "Width" and "Height" dimensions.

The vast majority of the pictures are 4896x3264, whereas the pictures that did not align are 3264x4896...

I attached a down-scaled sample of one of the pictures that did not align.

Is there any way to still use the pictures?

[stihl]

If you go to Tools > Camera Calibration .. Do all of the images in the image panel give the exact same resolution; 4896x3264?

Or are there ones in there that are switched as you mentioned?

[JMR]

Some of your photos might have been rotated because of the orientation sensor of your camera. This is annoying and many camera manufacturers forget one can not want this sensor to be acting at all.
check your images exif metadata and look for rotated images (please note that some of them might have been rotated 180º).
If you shot raw, you can have better control of this rotation during jpg conversion.
I use exiftools to reset all rotations

best

[apeech]

If you go to Tools > Camera Calibration .. Do all of the images in the image panel give the exact same resolution; 4896x3264?

Or are there ones in there that are switched as you mentioned?

All of the images in the image panel give the exact same resolution of 4896x3264.


I believe I spoke too soon - the image being rotated is true for some of the images, but not all of them.
I've uploaded two images, the first one was aligned properly, the second one was not.  They both have the same orientation, and were taken 1 second apart.  I still don't know why a number of the images are not aligning...

http://imgur.com/a/nXMcY