Using colmap to perform equivalent of photoscan's "orthomosaic" feature?

[snic...@gmail.com]

Hi Colmappers, 

I'd like to generate the equivalent of one of photoscan's orthomosaics from a series of UAV snapshots. I've got a nice surface mesh generating from my data, but I'm not sure of the highest quality way to generate a mosaicked texture. Is there another software that you'd recommend using in conjunction with colmap, for the best results? The quality of the stitched image really matters for my application.

thank you!

-Seth

[Johannes Schönberger]

Hi Seth,

At the moment, orthophoto mosaicing is not implemented directly for COLMAP, but we have a recent paper on doing this in real-time on a drone (see https://demuc.de/papers/hinzmann2017mapping.pdf). The code for it will be online soon, even though it is not targeted at producing high fidelity results for now.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Best,

Johannes

[se...@ceresimaging.net]

Hi Johannes! 

Did this code end up being published online? Thank you,

-Seth