SFMToolkit

Structure from Motion Toolkit is a complete photogrammetry solution based on open-source software. This toolkit is designed to be used on a 64-bit Windows OS with an Nvidia 3D card (tested on Windows Vista/7 and Nvidia 8800, 9800, 285, 465, 470).

Development status:

Done:

BundlerViewer: basic features implemented, needs improvements

ToDo:

Replace BundlerMatcher with OpenSynther that has a linear matching complexity

Credits:

BundlerFocalExtractor: extract CCD width from Exif using XML database.
BundlerMatcher: extract and match feature using SiftGPU.
Bundler: http://phototour.cs.washington.edu/bundler/ created by Noah Snavely.
CMVS: http://grail.cs.washington.edu/software/cmvs/ created by Yasutaka Furukawa.
PMVS2: http://grail.cs.washington.edu/software/pmvs/ created by Yasutaka Furukawa.
BundlerViewer: Bundler and PMVS2 output viewer based on Ogre3D.
BundlerToTracking: generate file to be used for AR tracking.
BundlerToPly: generate ply file from Bundler output (indexes of 3D points are store in normals).
BundlerCleaner: removed 3D points from the tracking file according to ply file [beta].

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Olof says:

March 23, 2011 at 1:53 am

Have you done any 32-bit version of BundlerMatcher? I am very curious about cmvs, but I only have Vista 32-bit. The Photosynthtoolkit is very good, but I miss cmvs.
admin says:

March 23, 2011 at 11:17 am

Olof: I don’t have compiled a 32-bit version of BundlerMatcher because the memory limitation of 32-bit app are too low. Moreover SiftGPU is using lot of virtual memory so it doesn’t let that much memory space to handle lot of feature descriptors… But I think that I’ll have a good news about CMVS and PhotoSynthToolkit in a couple weeks… stay tuned!
Olof says:

March 24, 2011 at 3:28 pm

Ok. Thanks for the reply. CMVS and PhotoSynthToolkit sounds like a very nice combination!
Trevor says:

July 21, 2011 at 8:53 am

I have installed and attempt to run this tool kit.
However I get a Microsoft LScript runtime error when using the supplied sample images.

The error is file not found code 800A0035 line 330 char 3.
SFMTToolkit3\1-Bundler.wsf.

Any help working this issue out would be greatly appreciated.
Damian says:

September 1, 2011 at 9:45 pm

I am having the same error on line 330 Char 3 File not found. I am on windows 7 x64 and have a nvidia graphics card.
Damian says:

September 1, 2011 at 10:17 pm

Regarding my last post, Moving the SFMToolkit3 folder to C:\ seems to have fixed the problem
Giorgia says:

September 29, 2011 at 12:55 pm

I am having the same error on line 330 Char 3 File not found. I am on windows 7 x64, but I have a Radeon graphics card.
gianluca says:

October 3, 2011 at 1:01 pm

Hi there, any news about the error on line 330 char 3? I just moved to a new 64bit computer but I keep getting this error message. I copied everything on C but nothing. I also moved the photos to c:\photos but still no success.
Help please!!
Thanks
Brad says:

November 28, 2011 at 2:12 am

Getting the same error
Script: C:\SFMToolkit3\1 – Bundler.wsf
Line: 330
Char: 3
Error: File not found
Code: 800A0035
Source: Microsoft JScript runtime error.

Here is my bundler.log:
[OnInit] Running program bin\Bundler\bundler.exe
Loading images from file ‘list_focal_absolute.txt’
[BundlerApp::OnInit] Processing options…
[BundlerApp::OnInit] Loading frame…
[BundlerApp::OnInit] Loading images…
[SifterApp::ReadGeometricConstraints] Error: number of images don’t match!
Avg. proj error [0 projections] = -1.#IOe+000
[BundleAdjust] Error: no good camera pairs found!
[BundleAdjust] Trying a backup approach…
[BundleAdjust] Error: no good camera pairs found!
[BundleAdjust] Picking first two cameras…
[SifterApp::BundleAdjust] Adjusting cameras 0 and 1 (score = 0.000)
[GetJPEGDimensions] File C:\SFMToolkit3\samples\Tree\IMG_6960.jpg: ( 2592 , 3888 )
[GetJPEGDimensions] File C:\SFMToolkit3\samples\Tree\IMG_6961.jpg: ( 2592 , 3888 )
[BaseApp::SetTracks] Setting tracks for image 0…
[BaseApp::SetTracks] Finished in 0.000s
[BaseApp::SetTracks] Setting tracks for image 1…
[BaseApp::SetTracks] Finished in 0.000s
Brad says:

November 28, 2011 at 2:29 am

Here’s my related post on the pgrammetry forum:
http://pgrammetry.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=362
Henri says:

November 28, 2011 at 11:40 pm

@Brad: I’ve taken a look at your log files and my guess is that there is not enough overlap between your pictures. Have you tried to use photosynth with your dataset?
Ara says:

January 20, 2012 at 11:03 pm

I follow the instructions in the guide (http://files.neonascent.net/photogrammetry-guide.pdf) but when I get to step denserecon.vds, starts the process but I get the error: Error opening file. / bundle / bundle.out for reading and a system window that says: radialundistort.exe stopped working. What should I do to get through the process? What am I doing wrong?. I am desperate
Henri says:

January 20, 2012 at 11:23 pm

@Ara: well, you should use SFMToolkit instead: the toolkit you are referring to was created before. BTW do you have tried PhotoSynthToolkit or even better 123D catch?
Nabeel says:

January 29, 2012 at 5:26 am

Hi. I have downloaded the kit. When I try to run Bundler script on the images error comes up at line 3. . .
Lee_william says:

May 28, 2012 at 1:33 pm

My computer does not support GPU.But I want to use BundlerToTracking.exe to generate track files.What should I do?Thank you!
Henri says:

May 28, 2012 at 4:10 pm

@Lee: BundlerToTracking was designed to produce a binary file needed for my outdoor augmented reality tracking algorithm. I doubt that it will be useful to you without the corresponding tracking code… (which is not open-source).
swee says:

September 7, 2012 at 9:24 am

Error: Missing CCD width in xml database for (Canon Canon EOS 550D) in file C:\SFMToolkit3\samples\Myimage\IMG_7655.jpg
How can i solve this . if i want to add camera ccdwidth to extract_focal.pl. How can i do that in windows?
Henri says:

September 10, 2012 at 5:49 am

@swee: You just need to add the ccd width of your camera in “cameras.xml”. You can find easily the ccd width on http://www.dpreview.com.
Josch says:

October 23, 2012 at 8:15 am

Hi,
I´m really interested in your work. We´re studying it at uni. But I can´t get the toolkit to run. I´m on WinXP 64bit, have copied the sfmtoolkit3 folder to c:\ and receive this error message: “Line: 85, Char: 3, This app has failed to start cause the app config is incorrect. Reinstalling may fix the problem”
Do you have any suggestions? The application isn´t really installed, is it? So I can´t reinstall it, right?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Jon A says:

February 20, 2013 at 1:28 am

Doest the camera you take the photos with have to be ccd, or does a cmos camera work as well?
gunny says:

September 29, 2013 at 7:16 am

I am having the same error like@Brad,any help would be greatly appreciated~

Loading images from file ‘E:\bundler-v0.4-source\bundler-v0.4-source\Lady_result
\pmvs\list.txt’
[BundlerApp::OnInit] Processing options…
[BundlerApp::OnInit] Loading frame…
[BundlerApp::OnInit] Loading images…
[SifterApp::ReadGeometricConstraints] Error: number of images don’t match!
Avg. proj error [0 projections] = nan
[BundleAdjust] Error: no good camera pairs found!
[BundleAdjust] Trying a backup approach…
[BundleAdjust] Error: no good camera pairs found!
[BundleAdjust] Picking first two cameras…
[SifterApp::BundleAdjust] Adjusting cameras 0 and 1 (score = 0.000)
[GetJPEGDimensions] File E:/bundler-v0.4-source/bundler-v0.4-source/Lady_result/
pmvs/ladybug_cube_000.jpg: ( 1024 , 1024 )
[GetJPEGDimensions] File E:/bundler-v0.4-source/bundler-v0.4-source/Lady_result/
pmvs/ladybug_cube_001.jpg: ( 1024 , 1024 )
[BaseApp::SetTracks] Setting tracks for image 0…
[BaseApp::SetTracks] Finished in 0.000s
[BaseApp::SetTracks] Setting tracks for image 1…
[BaseApp::SetTracks] Finished in 0.000s
assertion “p.first != p.second” failed: file “BaseApp.h”, line 273, function: st
d::vector& MatchTable::GetMatchList(MatchIndex)
2 [main] bundler 130956 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to bundler
.exe.stackdump
universe says:

June 4, 2014 at 6:31 am

I have installed and attempt to run this tool kit.
I also get a Microsoft LScript runtime error when using the supplied sample images ET.
The error is file not found code 800A0035 line 330 char 3.
SFMTToolkit3\1-Bundler.wsf.

How can i fix this priblem?
Ivy Wong says:

October 13, 2016 at 4:18 pm

hi,
I am really interested in your work. I am studying it. But is there any doc or help to follow, cause the Photogrammetry forum has been removed. And I can’t get it work on Window 10, even in the compatibility mode.
Ajay Dashora says:

March 21, 2017 at 6:10 pm

Hi, I just downloaded the zip files of sfmtoolkit3 from github repository. But there is no help file that confirms the compilation process of the code. Also, I could not locate any exe file. I am using WINDOWS 10 but I could not understand that how to compile or create exe file from the code give. Please advice…Thanks in advance for your great help….Ajay

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I'm Henri Astre, a French guy who likes visual experiments. I've done some nice demos in various domains (augmented reality, GPU computing, structure from motion, 3d rendering, web app...) that you can see on this blog. [+ resume]
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