Archive for July 2010
Visualizing Large 3D Point Clouds using Meshlab
2010-07-27 by , tagged as
Install Meshlab using aptitude: sudo aptitude install meshlab. Run from command line using meshlab or from the Graphics section of the Ubuntu menu.
Generating Dense Point Clouds using CMVS
2010-07-26 by , tagged as
Download CMVS and extract it to a directory of your choice, e.g. /usr/local/cmvs. Then in my case I needed to create a symbolic link liblapack.so.3 to liblapack.so within /usr/lib. You can add the CMVS directory to your PATH variable for easier access: export PATH=/usr/local/cmvs/program/main:$PATH.
Structure from Motion using Bundler
2010-07-25 by , tagged as
- Download Bundler and extract it into a directory (to be referred to as
BASE_PATH). - Download the SIFT Keypoint Detector and extract
sifttoBASE_PATH/bin. - Add
BASE_PATH/libtoLD_LIBRARY_PATH.
Extract Selected Video Frames using FFmpeg
2010-07-24 by , tagged as
FFmpeg can easily be used to extract single frames from video data, in my case to create input images from an aerial surveillance video for structure from motion reconstruction.
