OpenDroneMap version 0.4 Release Candidate 1

Check out our docs: http://docs.opendronemap.org/
And join the conversation: http://community.opendronemap.org/

Changelog:
New Features:

• 2.5 dimensional mesh
• Create georef transformation file
• DEM/DTM modeling with ground classification
• Add python contributions/plugin support
  • vegetation indices
  • blender
  • video 360
• Fast orthophoto with sparse reconstruction
• Add ID column support for GCP files
• Expose more parameters for OpenSfM (depth map, etc)
• Add support for laz output

Fixes/updates:

• Updated PDAL pipeline and version
• Increase useful output to stdout
• Remove resizing of original images (fixes issue with georeferencing
• Fix GPS altitude tag parsing
• Pyexiv2 crashing issue
• Fix x,y dimensions in exif after resize
• Improve install/configure script
• Improve usability
• improve readme instructions
• remove depreciated parameters
• Update dependencies
• improve docker usability
• fix utm bug: OpenDroneMap/WebODM#267
• replace jhead with exiv2
• fix end_with tag with mvs-texturing
• add ability to skip convert_to_las
• fix issue with single-digit utm zones
• Handle bundler files that have invalid/empty camera parameters
• remove sudo statements from config
• Fixed single-material rendering bug in odm_orthophoto
• Split-merge, for very large datasets
• Improve GDAL memory management
• Presever double coordinates precision in odm_georef
• Fix GCP accuracy issues
• odm_georef output to binary instead of ply
• fix mvs-tex temp dir issues
• make csv export optional
• improve odm_georef processing speed
• use cmake build type for internal modules
• remove mesh command in opensfm (currently unused)
• fix gippy download
• fix build processes in config script
• Fix VTK build

Known issues:

• Still only works natively on 16.04, but docker is well supported (and recommended).

TODO:

• double check documentation
• create lean release zip file (no git folder)

OpenDroneMap Beta v0.3.1 (hotfix)

This release fixes a compilation bug introduced by an external module, mvs-texturing.

Instructions:

1. Download this release.
2. Run bash configure.sh reinstall

OpenDroneMap Beta v0.3

Changelog

Features:

• Video SLAM processing (optional install) see wiki
• UI Changes:
  • Global settings file
  • project path setting
  • verbose flag
  • parameter name simplification
• GCP improvements:
  • Allow EXIF override
  • Automatically find gcp_list.txt
  • Use original images for georeferencing
  • Multithreaded
• add opensfm-processes n flag for memory management
• expose tone mapping parameter to mvs-texturing
• Add optional modules in contrib/ directory: NDVI, GRASS DEM, Blender
• Expose odm_orthophoto settings: BigTIFF, no-tiled, compression type
• DEM generation using PDAL and a progressive morphological filter
• More robust installation process (See readme)

Fixes

• better logging for subprocesses
• update GDAL for multithreading
• fix texturing global illumination
• allow for partial restart of opensfm
• Minimize Dockerfile
• and more....

Known Bugs

• using a GCP file, the resized images must be very close in size to the originals, or it will either fail or come out very weird.
• OpenSfM uses a lot of memory in systems with a high number of processors. For now, use --opensfm-processes n where n is smaller than your total number of cores (find that out by running nproc)

OpenDroneMap Beta v0.3 Release Candidate

Changelog

Features:

• Video SLAM processing (optional install) see wiki
• UI Changes:
  • Global settings file
  • project path setting
  • verbose flag
  • parameter name simplification
• GCP improvements:
  • Allow EXIF override
  • Automatically find gcp_list.txt
  • Use original images for georeferencing
  • Multithreaded
• add opensfm-processes n flag for memory management
• expose tone mapping parameter to mvs-texturing
• Add optional modules in contrib/ directory: NDVI, GRASS DEM, Blender
• Expose odm_orthophoto settings: BigTIFF, no-tiled, compression type
• DEM generation using PDAL and a progressive morphological filter
• More robust installation process (See readme)

Fixes

• better logging for subprocesses
• update GDAL for multithreading
• fix texturing global illumination
• allow for partial restart of opensfm
• Minimize Dockerfile
• and more....

OpenDroneMap Beta v0.2

Changelog

New Features

• MVS-Texturing: new texturing algorithm vastly improves blending, seam leveling, color correction, and overall quality using algorithms described in http://www.gcc.tu-darmstadt.de/media/gcc/papers/Waechter-2014-LTB.pdf
• Updates OpenSfM to more recent version
• Optional ability to install with semi-global matching point cloud densification technique. See here

Minor changes

• More streamlined installation
• Improves Docker installation (note changed process in readme)
• Parallelization of early tasks
• Bug fixes and code cleanup

Release candidate for beta 0.2 release

Changelog

New Features

• MVS-Texturing: new texturing algorithm vastly improves blending, seam leveling, color correction, and overall quality
• Updates OpenSfM to more recent version
• Optional ability to install with semi-global matching point cloud densification technique. See here

Minor changes

• More streamlined installation
• Improves Docker installation (note changed process in readme)
• Parallelization of early tasks
• Bug fixes and code cleanup

OpenDroneMap Beta v0.1

Changelog for v0.1-RC1

Huge update, we've incorporated a framework for processing along the toolchain and improved the installation process.

Installation

• cmake superbuild for all components
• Now you will run the following to install or update ODM:

bash ./configure.sh
mkdir build && cd build && cmake .. && make && cd ..

# copy paste the following (with correct directory structure) into your ~/.bashrc (or other preferred method) (requires logout/in to work)
export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:<ODMDIR>/SuperBuild/install/lib/python2.7/dist-packages:<ODMDIR>/SuperBuild/src/opensfm
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:<ODMDIR>/SuperBuild/install/lib

Running ODM

Use these instructions to run the processing script. Note there are significant differences from the previous version, namely you have to specify --project-path

Code restructure

• Object Oriented Code
• Ecto framework
• Project tree:
  • Your ODM project will have a more organized structure. One big change is that your images must be placed in a "images/" subdirectory in the project folder.
• Testing framework

Feature additions / changes

• Add XYZ pointcloud output
• benchmarking with --time
• Replacement of LASTools with PDAL
• Control script updates - --rerun-from, --rerun-all
• Remove local ccd_defs

Release Candidate for Beta v0.1 Release

Changelog for v0.1-RC1

Huge update, we've incorporated a framework for processing along the toolchain and improved the installation process.

Installation

• cmake superbuild for all components
• Now you will run the following to install or update ODM:

bash ./configure.sh
mkdir build && cd build && cmake .. && make && cd ..

# copy paste the following (with correct directory structure) into your ~/.bashrc (or other preferred method) (requires logout/in to work)
export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:<ODMDIR>/SuperBuild/install/lib/python2.7/dist-packages:<ODMDIR>/SuperBuild/src/opensfm
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:<ODMDIR>/SuperBuild/install/lib

Code restructure

• Object Oriented Code
• Ecto framework
• Project tree:
  • Your ODM project will have a more organized structure. One big change is that your images must be placed in a "images/" subdirectory in the project folder.
• Testing framework

Feature additions / changes

• Add XYZ pointcloud output
• benchmarking with --time
• Replacement of LASTools with PDAL
• Control script updates - --rerun-from, --rerun-all
• Remove local ccd_defs

Planned updates for next release (v0.1)

• None! This is a release candidate which means only bug fixes allowed.

Release/Versioning semantics

Beta

0.1-RC1	Beta Release Candidate
0.1	Beta Release
0.1.1	Bug Fix Release
0.2-RC1	Feature update RC
Etc.

Major Release

1.0-RC1	Major Release Candidate
1.0	Major Release
1.0.1	Bug Fixes
1.1	Minor Feature update (no api changes)
Etc.

Last update to the pre-alpha version before v0.1-alpha

Merge pull request #236 from OpenDroneMap/ccd-changes

Ccd changes

Former-commit-id: 3fcc58da7a88f1d2f21807f97395d78b29692ae5