MVSNet & R-MVSNet
About
MVSNet is a deep learning architecture for depth map inference from unstructured multi-view images, and R-MVSNet is its extension for scalable learning-based MVS reconstruction. If you find this project useful for your research, please cite:
@article{yao2018mvsnet,
title={MVSNet: Depth Inference for Unstructured Multi-view Stereo},
author={Yao, Yao and Luo, Zixin and Li, Shiwei and Fang, Tian and Quan, Long},
journal={European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
year={2018}
}
@article{yao2019recurrent,
title={Recurrent MVSNet for High-resolution Multi-view Stereo Depth Inference},
author={Yao, Yao and Luo, Zixin and Li, Shiwei and Shen, Tianwei and Fang, Tian and Quan, Long},
journal={Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
year={2019}
}
How to Use
Installation
- Check out the source code
git clone https://github.com/YoYo000/MVSNet
- Install cuda 9.0, cudnn 7.0 and python 2.7
- Install Tensorflow and other dependencies by
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
Training
- Download the preprocessed DTU training data (Fixed training cameras, Sep. 19), and upzip it as the
MVS_TRANING
folder - Enter the
MVSNet/mvsnet
folder, intrain.py
, setdtu_data_root
to yourMVS_TRANING
path - Create a log folder and a model folder in wherever you like to save the training outputs. Set the
log_dir
andsave_dir
intrain.py
correspondingly - Train MVSNet (GTX1080Ti):
python train.py --regularization 'GRU'
- Train R-MVSNet (GTX1080Ti):
python train.py --regularization '3DCNNs'
Testing
- Download the test data for scan9 and unzip it as the
TEST_DATA_FOLDER
folder, which should contain onecams
folder, oneimages
folder and onepair.txt
file - Download the pre-trained MVSNet and R-MVSNet models and upzip the file as
MODEL_FOLDER
- Enter the
MVSNet/mvsnet
folder, intest.py
, setmodel_dir
toMODEL_FOLDER
- Run MVSNet (GTX1080Ti):
python test.py --dense_folder TEST_DATA_FOLDER --regularization '3DCNNs' --max_w 1152 --max_h 864 --max_d 192 --interval_scale 1.06
- Run R-MVSNet (GTX1080Ti):
python test.py --dense_folder TEST_DATA_FOLDER --regularization 'GRU' --max_w 1600 --max_h 1200 --max_d 256 --interval_scale 0.8
- Inspect the .pfm format outputs in
TEST_DATA_FOLDER/depths_mvsnet
usingpython visualize.py .pfm
. For example the depth map and probability map for image00000012
should be something like:
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reference image | depth map | probability map |
Post-Processing
R/MVSNet itself only produces per-view depth maps. To generate the 3D point cloud, we need to apply depth map filter/fusion for post-processing. As our implementation of this part is depended on the Altizure internal library, currently we could not provide the corresponding code. Fortunately, depth map filter/fusion is a general step in MVS reconstruction, and there are similar implementations in other open-source MVS algorithms. We provide the script depthfusion.py
to utilize fusibile for post-processing (thank Silvano Galliani for the excellent code!).
To run the post-processing:
- Check out the modified version fusibile
git clone https://github.com/YoYo000/fusibile
- Install fusibile by
cmake .
andmake
, which will generate the executable atFUSIBILE_EXE_PATH
- Run post-processing (--prob_threshold 0.8 if using 3DCNNs):
python depthfusion.py --dense_folder TEST_DATA_FOLDER --fusibile_exe_path FUSIBILE_EXE_PATH --prob_threshold 0.3
- The final point cloud is stored in
TEST_DATA_FOLDER/points_mvsnet/consistencyCheck-TIME/final3d_model.ply
.
We observe that the point cloud output of depthfusion.py
is very similar to our own implementation. For detailed differences, please refer to MVSNet paper and Galliani's paper. The point cloud for scan9
should look like:
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point cloud result | ground truth point cloud |
Reproduce Benchmarking Results
The following steps are required to reproduce the point cloud results:
- Generate R/MVSNet inputs from the SfM outputs, you can use our preprocessed inputs for DTU, Tanks and Temples and ETH3D datasets (provided)
- Run R/MVSNet test script to generate depth maps for all views (provided)
- Apply variational depth map refinement for all views (optional, not provided)
- Apply depth map filter and fusion to generate the point cloud results (partially provided via fusibile)
R-MVSNet point cloud results with full post-processing are also provided: DTU evaluation point clouds
File Formats
Each project folder should contain the following
.
├── images
│ ├── 00000000.jpg
│ ├── 00000001.jpg
│ └── ...
├── cams
│ ├── 00000000_cam.txt
│ ├── 00000001_cam.txt
│ └── ...
└── pair.txt
If you want to apply R/MVSNet to your own data, please structure your data into such a folder.
Image Files
All image files are stored in the images
folder. We index each image using an 8 digit number starting from 00000000
. The following camera and output files use the same indexes as well.
Camera Files
The camera parameter of one image is stored in a cam.txt
file. The text file contains the camera extrinsic E = [R|t]
, intrinsic K
and the depth range:
extrinsic
E00 E01 E02 E03
E10 E11 E12 E13
E20 E21 E22 E23
E30 E31 E32 E33
intrinsic
K00 K01 K02
K10 K11 K12
K20 K21 K22
DEPTH_MIN DEPTH_INTERVAL (DEPTH_NUM DEPTH_MAX)
Note that the depth range and depth resolution are determined by the minimum depth DEPTH_MIN
, the interval between two depth samples DEPTH_INTERVAL
, and also the depth sample number DEPTH_NUM
(or max_d
in the training/testing scripts if DEPTH_NUM
is not provided). We also left the interval_scale
for controlling the depth resolution. The maximum depth is then computed as:
DEPTH_MAX = DEPTH_MIN + (interval_scale * DEPTH_INTERVAL) * (max_d - 1)
View Selection File
We store the view selection result in the pair.txt
. For each reference image, we calculate its view selection scores with each of the other views, and store the 10 best views in the pair.txt file:
TOTAL_IMAGE_NUM
IMAGE_ID0 # index of reference image 0
10 ID0 SCORE0 ID1 SCORE1 ... # 10 best source images for reference image 0
IMAGE_ID1 # index of reference image 1
10 ID0 SCORE0 ID1 SCORE1 ... # 10 best source images for reference image 1
...
Output Format
The test.py
script will create a depths_mvsnet
folder to store the running results, including the depth maps, probability maps, scaled/cropped images and the corresponding cameras. The depth and probability maps are stored in .pfm
format. We provide the python IO for pfm files in the preprocess.py
script, and for the c++ IO, we refer users to the Cimg library. To inspect the pfm format results, you can simply type python visualize.py .pfm
.
Todo
- Validation script
- View selection from Altizure/COLMAP/OpenMVG SfM output
- Depth sample selection from Altizure/COLMAP/OpenMVG SfM output
Changelog
2019 Feb 28
- Use
tf.contrib.image.transform
for differentiable homography warping. Reconstruction is now x2 faster!
2019 March 1
- Implement R-MVSNet and GRU regularization
- Network change: enable scale and center in batch normalization
- Network change: replace UniNet with 2D UNet
- Network change: use group normalization in R-MVSNet
2019 March 7
- MVSNet / R-MVSNet and training / testing scripts
- MVSNet and R-MVSNet models (trained for 100000 iterations)
2019 March 11
- Add "Reproduce Benchmarking Results" section
2019 March 14
- Add R-MVSNet point clouds of DTU evaluation set