Software Alternatives & Reviews

COLMAP VS openMVG

Compare COLMAP VS openMVG and see what are their differences

COLMAP logo COLMAP

Image-based 3D reconstruction pipeline with a graphical and command-line interface

openMVG logo openMVG

openMVG: "open Multiple View Geometry" is a c++ library for computer-vision scientists...
  • COLMAP Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-09-17
  • openMVG Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-02-18

COLMAP videos

Free Photogrammetry: Photos to model in 6 minutes with COLMAP

openMVG videos

ArcheOS videotutorial: openMVG-GUI

More videos:

  • Review - OpenMVG+GCP UI+OpenMVS

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to COLMAP and openMVG)
3D
42 42%
58% 58
Architecture
50 50%
50% 50
Freelance
52 52%
48% 48
Photos & Graphics
27 27%
73% 73

User comments

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, COLMAP seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 1 time since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

COLMAP mentions (1)

  • How to do Structure from motion (SfM) from a video in Blender?
    First there's COLMAP that seems to be able to work with SfM data. And then there's Blender-Addon-Photgrammetry-Importer which can take the output of COLMAP and import that into blender. Source: almost 2 years ago

openMVG mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of openMVG yet. Tracking of openMVG recommendations started around Mar 2021.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing COLMAP and openMVG, you can also consider the following products

Regard3D - Regard3D is a free, multiplatform, open-source structure-from-motion application.

ContextCapture - Acute3D develops breakthrough photogrammetry software solutions to automatically turn photos into photorealistic high resolution 3D models

3DF Zephyr - Next up in my series of Photogrammetry Software Reviews — after ReMake, PhotoScan & RealityCapture — is 3DF Zephyr (including the Free version).

Pix4Dmapper - Photogrammetry software for professional drone-based mapping, purely from images.

RealityCapture - RealityCapture is a software solution which automatically produces high resolution 3D models from photographs or laser-scans.

Skycatch - Commercial drone data solutions for modern businesses.