[Metashape Boutique Tutorial 2] Creating a Project

[Metashape Boutique Tutorial 2] Creating a Project

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foreword

This chapter mainly explains the creation of projects, including importing photos, pos, camera parameters, control points, and selection of coordinate systems.

1. Import photos

1. Menu Bar - Workflow - Select Add Photo or Add Folder.

2. Import pos

1. Reference toolbar - click the import button

2. Select the pos file and click to open

Note: The image name needs to add a suffix (such as .tif, .jpg), otherwise the photo cannot be associated

3. After importing, you can see it in the reference bar To the pos information of the photo, the model window can see the corresponding position of the photo

3. Set the camera parameters (if there is no setting, let the software calculate the camera parameters)

1. Menu bar - Tools - Camera Calibration, open the camera calibration dialog box


2. Select pre-calibration, input camera calibration parameters

Note: Focal length f: the unit is the offset of the principal point of the pixel image cx, cy: the center of the image is the origin

3. Camera file import and save
1. Click the open button to import camera parameters

Support the format of imported camera parameters
2. Save camera parameters

Save camera parameters for the convenience of direct import next time, saving the trouble of repeated input.

4. Import control points

1. Reference toolbar - click the import button - first select the control point file to open

2. After importing, you can see the coordinates of the control points and the orientation of the control points

5. Save the project

Save the project. Since the project is successfully created, the next data processing process can be performed