Photogrammetry 101 with Harman
Current Progress
41 images of a Black and Decker Cordless Drill have been taken for use with COLMAP
Have been unable to get COLMAP to carry out a reconstruction using the GPU on the following machines:
PC: Sony Vaio Laptop
OS: Ubuntu 18.04
CPU: Intel i5-2540M
GPU: Radeon 6630M
Notes: GUI crashes to terminal with SIGABRT error when attempting reconstruction
PC: Custom AMD
OS: Ubuntu 18.04
CPU:AMD FX-6300
GPU: AMD Vega FE
Notes: GUI crashes to terminal with SIGABRT error when attempting reconstruction
PC: Custom AMD
OS: Windows 10
CPU: AMD FX-6300
GPU: AMD Vega FE
Notes: Reconstruction analyzes images but finds no features to match
PC: Custom Intel
OS: Ubuntu 18.04
CPU: Intel i5-3570K
GPU: EVGA GTX 970
Notes: Same crash as others
I have had some success with COLMAP analyzing images and finding features using the CPU only (no GPU) on my custom AMD and Intel builds. This has been running for 8.5 hours today, and I don't know if it will be done in a reasonable amount of time because the CPU is much slower at image analysis than the GPU pipeline.
Next Steps
I'm going to leave the reconstructions running overnight. Tomorrow I will probably shut one desktop down to attempt a CPU reconstruction of my 41 cordless drill images, and shut the other one down for use as a diagnostic machine with which I will post to the COLMAP GitHub for guidance. This may require writing some code for COLMAP if it isn't a quick fix