{
  "id": 413008,
  "title": "What is the function of pycolmap.match_exhaustive?",
  "url": "/competitions/image-matching-challenge-2023/discussion/413008",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2023-05-26T11:03:25.454073200Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 1,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>The example code generates feature point matches for each model, but why does it still perform pycolmap.match_exhaustive? I tried skipping this step and found that the reconstruction was unsuccessful.</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "2274903",
      "postDate": "05/26/2023 11:03:25",
      "content": "<p>The example code generates feature point matches for each model, but why does it still perform pycolmap.match_exhaustive? I tried skipping this step and found that the reconstruction was unsuccessful.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "The example code generates feature point matches for each model, but why does it still perform pycolmap.match_exhaustive? I tried skipping this step and found that the reconstruction was unsuccessful.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "2274996",
      "postDate": "05/26/2023 12:24:11",
      "content": "<p>It does 2 things. <br>\nIf you do NOT provide matches, it does feature matching and RANSAC (F/E/H) epipolar geometry estimation.<br>\nIf you DO provide matches, it does only RANSAC. </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "It does 2 things. \nIf you do NOT provide matches, it does feature matching and RANSAC (F/E/H) epipolar geometry estimation.\nIf you DO provide matches, it does only RANSAC.",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 2274996,
      "author_name": "oldufo",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "05/26/2023 12:24:11",
      "content": "<p>It does 2 things. <br>\nIf you do NOT provide matches, it does feature matching and RANSAC (F/E/H) epipolar geometry estimation.<br>\nIf you DO provide matches, it does only RANSAC. </p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "2274903": "The example code generates feature point matches for each model, but why does it still perform pycolmap.match_exhaustive? I tried skipping this step and found that the reconstruction was unsuccessful.",
    "2274996": "It does 2 things. \nIf you do NOT provide matches, it does feature matching and RANSAC (F/E/H) epipolar geometry estimation.\nIf you DO provide matches, it does only RANSAC."
  },
  "source": "meta"
}