Structure from Motion

A photogrammetry technique that reconstructs 3D scene structure and camera poses from a set of 2D images with known or unknown camera positions. SfM pipelines: detect features (SIFT/ORB), match features between images, estimate camera poses (PnP, essential matrix), triangulate 3D points, and refine via bundle adjustment. COLMAP is the standard offline SfM tool.

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