bundler_sfm

Why we included this project

Bundler has been around long enough to earn a place in the standard toolkit for structure from motion. It takes unordered image collections, including the kind you scrape off the Internet, and returns camera positions plus sparse scene geometry, working incrementally a few images at a time and refining everything with sparse bundle adjustment. The distribution also ships a converter to PMVS and a radial undistortion utility, so it fits naturally as the sparse reconstruction step in a larger multi-tool 3D pipeline. It is C/C++ code that expects to be compiled and run on Linux, so the audience is researchers and engineers comfortable with build scripts rather than people looking for a GUI. The manual is thorough, and the Photo Tourism project behind it means it has a long track record in academic and heritage work.