@@UCKY5 it's likely on by default, and unable to be disabled

@@justinlabarge8178 how do I check that my files have them?

@@UCKY5 The majority of smart phones don't allow you to turn it off besides GPS which is a good thing in this case.

How to record orientation of each photo? Idont get it. if it's drone, it separated to different file

@@rafiffadhil5872 It doesn't NEED the orientation as meta data. It just speeds up the calculation if it does. You can throw different cameras in the software (like mixing drone shots with regular shots) and the software will do just fine.

This is a contradictory statement

@@horrorhotel1999 I think he means the laborious steps involved are the same as ever (no advances in automation), but the 3D reconstruction you get at the end is better. I don’t know whether that’s true, but it’s not contradictory.

hahah That’s pretty wild. I did that on one of my other channels. Just had some mobile game footage from years ago and posted a flight training video. (with a real airplane, not a video game) Just wanted to backup the files somewhere else besides the phone because it was overheating and the battery was expanding in thickness. Didn’t want to have to wait until I could order a new battery to get to the video files, in case the battery completely failed or even burst open. Ended up uploading public by accident and didn’t realize it till I got home hours later. Some of my old game buddys saw it along with a “face reveal” lol

Meshroom is free and open source

I imagine he’s talking about time, not money

That sounds quite ambitious. Best of luck!

Solutions for macOS would also be very welcome. Thanks!

Yes, it should work. Make sure to get photos from different positions in you truck.

It will come to Intel GPUs.

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1050ti is capable enough to run Meshroom

Not much. You'll still want to get pictures evenly around the object. Professionals use a drone for that. If that's not an option, take pictures close and further away from the house. Then, depending on your roof you might not get good reconstruction there. For scaling you could use the length of a wall for example.

Yes that is possible. For it to work I had to set "Minimal 2D Motion" in the "FeatureMatching" Node. I used a value of 5 but you might have to experiment.

The number of pictures is good but 108mp is a lot ;) Are you stuck at the depth map node? That one took the longest for me. In the depth map node you can set a downscale factor. Try 8/16, the default is 2. On my system 100 images at 18mp took 80 minutes (ryzen 3800xt, 32gb ddr4, 1080TI).

@@DanielJutz It was just the first step. It took approx. 65 minutes to process one photo. So at 35 hrs it was around 30 photos out of 68. So i went to make another set of photos xD

108mp?!? What are you shooting with?

maybe try using a better camera. Picture resolution isn't a good value to judge camera quality, usually they aren't good sensors if they need to market them with 108mp

Algorithmen often work better with less megapixels. Tesla's FSD example work I believe with a 3 or 5 Megapixel cameras. But sure it's not the same for fast real time 3d Images or high quality 3d files

Yes, the exact same way with a cheaper GPU

From a technical standpoint it should work. Results will depend on your drone's camera. Always make sure you have permission to fly! ;)

I know two ways around that issue. Option A: Mount your object on a pole at a height that allows you to take pictures from above and below. Option B: Perform two scans, one with the object flipped upside down, and merge them digitally. Meshlab has the Alignment tool for that purpose.

Thanks! An old nitro rc car converted to electric with a drill motor.

Maybe, Meshroom might not like it if you are in the frame. This discussion might be able to help you github.com/alicevision/meshroom/issues/526 .

@@DanielJutz thx.

Like handwritten or printed? I feel like tesseract should be able to do it if it's printed. If memory serves there is a language pack for math symbols.

@@oliverer3 Yes, I have tried Tesseract as well as numerous open-source tools and private software like PDF elements. I have some old scanned books that are no longer available in my country, but they are low-quality images in the form of old PDFs. Unfortunately, I haven't come across a single AI tool that can accurately recognize the text and transcribe it directly into a format like Markdown or LaTeX, especially when it comes to mathematical formulas and other symbols.

@@Maisonier You could probably use a combination of tesseract and OpenCV to do it then but it would take a decent amount of manual effort to tune it. Plug and play tools are probably not there yet.

Photos have higher resolution

I also prefer 3df zephyr, is much much faster imo. Free version used.

the free version has a limit on the number of images you can use

@@theneonbop yeah but it’s around 70 pictures. Try it out. It’s enough for most projects. I bought the version for 300 pictures in the end because it works.

Draft Meshing is available which does not need a Nvidia GPU. While it computes faster, the results will always be worse. You can access that Pipeline from File > New Pipeline > Photogrammetry Draft. You will probably want to increase Describer Density and Quality to high or ultra in the Feature Extraction Node.

These days of Ai you can't even test any LLM without Nvidia, forget about cheap notebooks with Intel graphics or AMD trash (their chips are cheap but very bad in support and unreliable, Amd was found in planned obsolescence in graphics chips, so designed defects in Macbooks which massively dying after certain years, I have one of whose).

Why do they use a comma in that case? Because they were already using the period as a thousands separator, of course! :) This sort of thing is quite like the idea of having traffic drive on the left or right hand side of the road as a convention. To be pedantic, it's called a radix point in general, in case you're not using a period, or a comma ... or not using a decimal number system. This issue is a problem of bad localization in MeshLab, and it ought to be raised as a bug with that project so this sort of advice to use a foreign choice of radix point symbol isn't needed anymore.

It's a Nvidia 1080 Ti.

I don't know even any LLM project using anything other than Nvidia, so forget about Amd and never buy their trash - after they deliberately engineering the death of graphics chips in all Macbooks Pro from 2011, which I have, moreover I have two similar models Macbooks, one Nvidia, other Amd and last one died as predicted on forums, a mass time bomb. It's really hard to resurrect macbook after, you're left only with Intel graphics and half power slower notebook. Their chips dying because of overheating, ridiculous.

Better results are possible. Either by taking more pictures or by tweaking pipeline settings. You can find more information here: meshroom-manual.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq/reconstruction-parameters/reconstruction-parameters.html . For those improvements you will have to accept longer processing times.

@@DanielJutz but is it better than a manual topo ?

I'd say it depends. While it does increase processing time, in my experience it also increases the likelihood of all camera positions being reconstructed successfully.

And on proprietary CPU, shame on him should be all open source to count!