Comments on: PhotoSynth Toolkit updated

By: Henri

Henri — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 18:17:48 +0000

@Dan: yep you need first to provide the destination folder and then gives the GUID. In fact if my downloader found that you provide a folder with an existing synth downloaded (or a local photosynth not yet uploaded) it won't ask you for a guid.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 10:39:30 +0000

When I try the first step “dpwnload synth” it is supposed to give me a box to enter the photosynth URL I beleive but instead it opens a PC window asking where the file is located? Any ideas?

By: Michael Denis

Michael Denis — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 07:08:38 +0000

Hi, I am lost in the process and need help.

I was able to:

1. Download the zip
2. Extract the zip
3. Run “1 – Download Synth”
4. Select an Output
5. Checked that the Output Worked
6. ??????

Which files need to go where? The pictures I originally used to make my synth?

And what do I need to “Prepare for PMVS2″ ?

I recognize that this message reads like a lot of crazy questions. Thank you for your help in advance. I am very impressed with the work that you have shown on this page, but could use a more simple set of instructions for duplicating your efforts.

Thanks!

By: Structure from motion projects » Visual-Experiments.com

Structure from motion projects » Visual-Experiments.com — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:57:47 +0000

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By: admin

admin — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:33:57 +0000

@ALoopingIcon: Thanks ! Having this kind of stuff package in MeshLab would be awesome !

@Alex Lim: I’m not using Ogre3D SDK, I have compiled it from source. But I think that you’ve figured out by yourself. I’m also using CMake version of boost 1.41 (to be able to compile it for windows x64).

@Dave: You’re welcome ! Glad to see that you find some help in the forum. I’m kinda busy right now…

@DeckG: There is no point cleaning the point cloud downloaded from PhotoSynth because it is not used by PMVS for the dense reconstruction. Only cameras parameters are used (position, orientation and distort parameters).

@Denis: What toolkit are you referring to ? PhotoSynthToolkit or SFMToolkit ? Using level 0 instead of 1 for the PhotoSynthToolkit will produce a denser point cloud. If you want some help for model generation you can take a look at Josh Harle videos: http://www.visual-experiments.com/2010/09/23/pmvs2-x64-and-videos-tutorials/

By: Denis

Denis — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 07:01:30 +0000

I try http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=cf8bcf44-5234-47b3-a2bb-c7c877e2bd7f and clear all points except center sculpture.
But original point cloud from photosynth was far better than reconstructed with toolkit (default settings). In toolkit there is not realistic head of man.
What’s wrong ? Can you explain how to apply texture (not color from point) to generated meshlab model ?

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:44:02 +0000

Hey Henri,

I was able to get it to run with some help from the forum. I was able to get one 20 photo set to work and was really impressed by the level of detail of the resulting point cloud and mesh. I’ll be sure to post again after I’ve had time to play around and see what works best.

Thanks for putting this together!

By: DeckG

DeckG — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 22:37:14 +0000

Hi,
Having a lot of fun with the toolkit. Question about the downloaded pointclouds from Photosynth. They are sometimes quite noisy, is there any way that we could clean up the coord_system point cloud in meshlab then re-create the points_0_0 etc files with the cleaned result? Would this speed up the processing with the toolkit?
Just created a 9mb point cloud in photosynth, can’t wait to see the results from the toolkit!

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 06:08:38 +0000

Hey Henri,

I’ve tried working with the updated toolkit this weekend but so far have not had any luck. Is the download a stand alone or should I be adding it to a previous toolkit? I was able to successfully work with your toolkit2 a little while back but haven’t been able to work on any of this stuff in a while so don’t know if I’ve missed anything in between.
Is there a quick Readme anywhere or any tutorial anyone has put together? Any advice would be useful since it seems like I’m only getting
“PhotoSynth composed of 20 pictures and 1 CoordSystems:
[0]: 20 cameras, 22653 points”

When I run the 1-download synth first step and nothing seems to work after that.

Thanks for any help you can give. I’ll post on the forums as well.

Thanks,
Dave

By: Denis

Denis — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:25:54 +0000

How automatically project image texture and minimize triangles in order to put model on google earth ?