Extracting feature matching geometric filter into new nodes for external matchers

meshroom/aliceVision/GeometricFilterApplying.py

@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+__version__ = "1.0"
+
+from meshroom.core import desc
+from meshroom.core.utils import DESCRIBER_TYPES, VERBOSE_LEVEL
+
+
+class GeometricFilterApplying(desc.AVCommandLineNode):
+    commandLine = 'aliceVision_geometricFilterApplying {allParams}'
+    size = desc.DynamicNodeSize('input')
+    parallelization = desc.Parallelization(blockSize=20)
+    commandLineRange = '--rangeIteration {rangeIteration} --rangeBlocksCount {rangeBlocksCount}'
+
+    category = 'Sparse Reconstruction'
+    documentation = '''
+Apply precomputed transforms to matches to filter geometric matches
+'''
+
+    inputs = [
+        desc.File(
+            name="input",
+            label="SfMData",
+            description="Input SfMData file.",
+            value="",
+        ),
+        desc.ListAttribute(
+            elementDesc=desc.File(
+                name="featuresFolder",
+                label="Features Folder",
+                description="Folder containing some extracted features and descriptors.",
+                value="",
+            ),
+            name="featuresFolders",
+            label="Features Folders",
+            description="Folder(s) containing the extracted features and descriptors.",
+            exposed=True,
+        ),
+        desc.ListAttribute(
+            elementDesc=desc.File(
+                name="matchesFolder",
+                label="Matches Folder",
+                description="Folder containing some matches.",
+                value="",
+            ),
+            name="matchesFolders",
+            label="Matches Folders",
+            description="Folder(s) in which computed matches are stored.",
+            exposed=True,
+        ),
+        desc.File(
+            name="filters",
+            label="Filters Folder",
+            description="Path to a folder in which the computed filters are stored.",
+            value="",
+            exposed=True
+        ),
+        desc.ChoiceParam(
+            name="describerTypes",
+            label="Describer Types",
+            description="Describer types used to describe an image.",
+            values=DESCRIBER_TYPES,
+            value=["dspsift"],
+            exclusive=False,
+            joinChar=",",
+            exposed=True,
+        ),
+        desc.IntParam(
+            name="maxMatches",
+            label="Max Matches",
+            description="Maximum number of matches to keep.",
+            value=0,
+            range=(0, 10000, 1),
+            advanced=True,
+        ),
+        desc.ChoiceParam(
+            name="verboseLevel",
+            label="Verbose Level",
+            description="Verbosity level (fatal, error, warning, info, debug, trace).",
+            values=VERBOSE_LEVEL,
+            value="info",
+        ),
+    ]
+    outputs = [
+        desc.File(
+            name="output",
+            label="Matches Folder",
+            description="Path to a folder in which the computed matches are stored.",
+            value="{nodeCacheFolder}",
+        ),
+    ]

meshroom/aliceVision/GeometricFilterEstimating.py

@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+__version__ = "1.0"
+
+from meshroom.core import desc
+from meshroom.core.utils import DESCRIBER_TYPES, VERBOSE_LEVEL
+
+
+class GeometricFilterEstimating(desc.AVCommandLineNode):
+    commandLine = 'aliceVision_geometricFilterEstimating {allParams}'
+    size = desc.DynamicNodeSize('input')
+    parallelization = desc.Parallelization(blockSize=20)
+    commandLineRange = '--rangeIteration {rangeIteration} --rangeBlocksCount {rangeBlocksCount}'
+
+    category = 'Sparse Reconstruction'
+    documentation = '''
+It performs a geometric filtering of the photometric match candidates.
+It uses the features positions in the images to make a geometric filtering by using epipolar geometry in an outlier detection framework
+called RANSAC (RANdom SAmple Consensus). It randomly selects a small set of feature correspondences and compute the fundamental (or essential) matrix,
+then it checks the number of features that validates this model and iterate through the RANSAC framework.
+
+## Online
+[https://alicevision.org/#photogrammetry/feature_matching](https://alicevision.org/#photogrammetry/feature_matching)
+'''
+
+    inputs = [
+        desc.File(
+            name="input",
+            label="SfMData",
+            description="Input SfMData file.",
+            value="",
+        ),
+        desc.ListAttribute(
+            elementDesc=desc.File(
+                name="featuresFolder",
+                label="Features Folder",
+                description="Folder containing some extracted features and descriptors.",
+                value="",
+            ),
+            name="featuresFolders",
+            label="Features Folders",
+            description="Folder(s) containing the extracted features and descriptors.",
+            exposed=True,
+        ),
+        desc.ListAttribute(
+            elementDesc=desc.File(
+                name="matchesFolder",
+                label="Matches Folder",
+                description="Folder containing some matches.",
+                value="",
+            ),
+            name="matchesFolders",
+            label="Matches Folders",
+            description="Folder(s) in which computed matches are stored.",
+            exposed=True,
+        ),
+        desc.ChoiceParam(
+            name="describerTypes",
+            label="Describer Types",
+            description="Describer types used to describe an image.",
+            values=DESCRIBER_TYPES,
+            value=["dspsift"],
+            exclusive=False,
+            joinChar=",",
+            exposed=True,
+        ),
+        desc.IntParam(
+            name="maxIteration",
+            label="Max Iterations",
+            description="Maximum number of iterations allowed in the Ransac step.",
+            value=50000,
+            range=(1, 100000, 1),
+            advanced=True,
+        ),
+        desc.FloatParam(
+            name="geometricError",
+            label="Geometric Validation Error",
+            description="Maximum error (in pixels) allowed for features matching during geometric verification",
+            value=0.0,
+            range=(0.0, 10.0, 0.1),
+            advanced=True,
+        ),
+        desc.IntParam(
+            name="maxMatches",
+            label="Max Matches",
+            description="Maximum number of matches to keep.",
+            value=0,
+            range=(0, 10000, 1),
+            advanced=True,
+        ),
+        desc.ChoiceParam(
+            name="verboseLevel",
+            label="Verbose Level",
+            description="Verbosity level (fatal, error, warning, info, debug, trace).",
+            values=VERBOSE_LEVEL,
+            value="info",
+        ),
+    ]
+    outputs = [
+        desc.File(
+            name="output",
+            label="Filters Folder",
+            description="Path to a folder in which the computed filters are stored.",
+            value="{nodeCacheFolder}",
+        ),
+    ]

meshroom/aliceVision/ImageMatching.py

@@ -63,9 +63,10 @@ class ImageMatching(desc.AVCommandLineNode):
                         " - SequentialAndVocabularyTree:  Combines sequential approach with VocTree to enable connections between keyframes at different times.\n"
                         " - Exhaustive: Export all image pairs.\n"
                         " - Frustum: If images have known poses, computes the intersection between cameras frustums to create the list of image pairs.\n"
-                        " - FrustumOrVocabularyTree: If images have known poses, use frustum intersection else use VocabularyTree.\n",
+                        " - FrustumOrVocabularyTree: If images have known poses, use frustum intersection else use VocabularyTree.\n"
+                        " - Mirror: Try to match images with themselves. \n",
             value="SequentialAndVocabularyTree",
-            values=["VocabularyTree", "Sequential", "SequentialAndVocabularyTree", "Exhaustive", "Frustum", "FrustumOrVocabularyTree"],
+            values=["VocabularyTree", "Sequential", "SequentialAndVocabularyTree", "Exhaustive", "Frustum", "FrustumOrVocabularyTree", "Mirror"],
         ),
         desc.File(
             name="tree",

src/aliceVision/feature/feature.i

@@ -9,6 +9,15 @@
 %include <aliceVision/config.hpp>
 %include <aliceVision/global.i>
 
+namespace std
+{
+    #ifdef LINUXPLATFORM
+    typedef long unsigned int size_t;
+    #else
+    typedef long unsigned long size_t;
+    #endif
+}
+
 %{    
 #include <aliceVision/feature/Regions.hpp>
 #include <aliceVision/feature/imageDescriberCommon.hpp>

src/aliceVision/imageMatching/ImageMatching.cpp

@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ std::string EImageMatchingMethod_enumToString(EImageMatchingMethod m)
             return "Frustum";
         case EImageMatchingMethod::FRUSTUM_OR_VOCABULARYTREE:
             return "FrustumOrVocabularyTree";
+        case EImageMatchingMethod::MIRROR:
+            return "Mirror";
     }
     throw std::out_of_range("Invalid EImageMatchingMethod enum: " + std::to_string(int(m)));
 }
@@ -61,6 +63,8 @@ EImageMatchingMethod EImageMatchingMethod_stringToEnum(const std::string& m)
         return EImageMatchingMethod::FRUSTUM;
     if (mode == "frustumorvocabularytree")
         return EImageMatchingMethod::FRUSTUM_OR_VOCABULARYTREE;
+    if (mode == "mirror")
+        return EImageMatchingMethod::MIRROR;
 
     throw std::out_of_range("Invalid EImageMatchingMethod: " + m);
 }
@@ -185,6 +189,14 @@ void generateSequentialMatches(const sfmData::SfMData& sfmData, size_t nbMatches
     }
 }
 
+void generateMirrorsMatches(const sfmData::SfMData& sfmData, OrderedPairList& outPairList)
+{
+    for (const auto& [index, _] : sfmData.getViews())
+    {
+        outPairList[index].insert(index);
+    }
+}
+
 void generateAllMatchesInOneMap(const std::set<IndexT>& viewIds, OrderedPairList& outPairList)
 {
     for (const IndexT imgA : viewIds)

src/aliceVision/imageMatching/ImageMatching.hpp

@@ -54,7 +54,8 @@ enum class EImageMatchingMethod
     SEQUENTIAL = 2,
     SEQUENTIAL_AND_VOCABULARYTREE = 3,
     FRUSTUM = 4,
-    FRUSTUM_OR_VOCABULARYTREE = 5
+    FRUSTUM_OR_VOCABULARYTREE = 5,
+    MIRROR = 6,
 };
 
 /**
@@ -116,6 +117,7 @@ EImageMatchingMode EImageMatchingMode_stringToEnum(const std::string& modeMultiS
 void convertAllMatchesToPairList(const PairList& allMatches, std::size_t numMatches, OrderedPairList& outPairList);
 
 void generateSequentialMatches(const sfmData::SfMData& sfmData, size_t nbMatches, OrderedPairList& outPairList);
+void generateMirrorsMatches(const sfmData::SfMData& sfmData, OrderedPairList& outPairList);
 void generateAllMatchesInOneMap(const std::set<IndexT>& viewIds, OrderedPairList& outPairList);
 void generateAllMatchesBetweenTwoMap(const std::set<IndexT>& viewIdsA, const std::set<IndexT>& viewIdsB, OrderedPairList& outPairList);
 

src/aliceVision/matchingImageCollection/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ set(matching_collection_images_files_headers
     ImagePairListIO.hpp
     geometricFilterUtils.hpp
     pairBuilder.hpp
+    GeometricInfo.hpp
 )
 
 # Sources
@@ -26,6 +27,7 @@ set(matching_collection_images_files_sources
     geometricFilterUtils.cpp
     ImagePairListIO.cpp
     pairBuilder.cpp
+    GeometricInfo.cpp
 )
 
 alicevision_add_library(aliceVision_matchingImageCollection
@@ -38,6 +40,7 @@ alicevision_add_library(aliceVision_matchingImageCollection
         aliceVision_sfmData
         Boost::boost
         Boost::timer
+        Boost::json
     PRIVATE_LINKS
         aliceVision_system
         ${CERES_LIBRARIES}

src/aliceVision/matchingImageCollection/GeometricFilter.hpp

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 #include <aliceVision/matching/MatchesCollections.hpp>
 #include <aliceVision/matchingImageCollection/GeometricFilterMatrix.hpp>
 #include <aliceVision/system/ProgressDisplay.hpp>
+#include <aliceVision/matchingImageCollection/GeometricInfo.hpp>
 
 #include <map>
 #include <random>
@@ -28,7 +29,7 @@ using namespace aliceVision::matching;
  * or all the pairs and regions correspondences contained in the putativeMatches set.
  * Allow to keep only geometrically coherent matches.
  * It discards pairs that do not lead to a valid robust model estimation.
- * @param[out] geometricMatches
+ * @param[out] out_geometricMatches
  * @param[in] sfmData
  * @param[in] regionsPerView
  * @param[in] functor
@@ -39,7 +40,7 @@ using namespace aliceVision::matching;
  */
 template<typename GeometryFunctor>
 void robustModelEstimation(PairwiseMatches& out_geometricMatches,
-                           const sfmData::SfMData* sfmData,
+                           const sfmData::SfMData& sfmData,
                            const feature::RegionsPerView& regionsPerView,
                            const GeometryFunctor& functor,
                            const PairwiseMatches& putativeMatches,
@@ -73,7 +74,6 @@ void robustModelEstimation(PairwiseMatches& out_geometricMatches,
                 {
                     MatchesPerDescType guidedGeometricInliers;
                     geometricFilter.Geometry_guided_matching(sfmData, regionsPerView, imagePair, distanceRatio, guidedGeometricInliers);
-                    // ALICEVISION_LOG_DEBUG("#before/#after: " << putative_inliers.size() << "/" << guided_geometric_inliers.size());
                     std::swap(inliers, guidedGeometricInliers);
                 }
 
@@ -87,6 +87,64 @@ void robustModelEstimation(PairwiseMatches& out_geometricMatches,
     }
 }
 
+/**
+ * @brief Perform robust model estimation (with optional guided_matching)
+ * or all the pairs and regions correspondences contained in the putativeMatches set.
+ * Allow to keep only geometrically coherent matches.
+ * It discards pairs that do not lead to a valid robust model estimation.
+ * @param[out] out_geometricInfos
+ * @param[in] sfmData
+ * @param[in] regionsPerView
+ * @param[in] functor
+ * @param[in] putativeMatches
+ * @param[in] randomNumberGenerator
+ */
+template<typename GeometryFunctor>
+void robustModelEstimation(PairwiseGeometricInfo& out_geometricInfos,
+                           const sfmData::SfMData& sfmData,
+                           const feature::RegionsPerView& regionsPerView,
+                           const GeometryFunctor& functor,
+                           const PairwiseMatches& putativeMatches,
+                           std::mt19937& randomNumberGenerator)
+{
+    out_geometricInfos.clear();
+
+    auto progressDisplay = system::createConsoleProgressDisplay(putativeMatches.size(), std::cout, "Robust Model Estimation\n");
+
+#pragma omp parallel for schedule(dynamic)
+    for (int i = 0; i < (int)putativeMatches.size(); ++i)
+    {
+        PairwiseMatches::const_iterator iter = putativeMatches.begin();
+        std::advance(iter, i);
+
+        const Pair currentPair = iter->first;
+        const MatchesPerDescType& putativeMatchesPerType = iter->second;
+        const Pair& imagePair = iter->first;
+
+        // apply the geometric filter (robust model estimation)
+        {
+            MatchesPerDescType inliers;
+            GeometryFunctor geometricFilter = functor;  // use a copy since we are in a multi-thread context
+            const EstimationStatus state =
+              geometricFilter.geometricEstimation(sfmData, regionsPerView, imagePair, putativeMatchesPerType, randomNumberGenerator, inliers);
+
+            if (state.hasStrongSupport)
+            {
+#pragma omp critical
+                {
+                    PairGeometricInfo info;
+                    info.model = geometricFilter.getMatrix();
+                    info.inliers = inliers.getNbAllMatches();
+                    info.threshold = geometricFilter.m_dPrecision_robust;
+                    info.type = geometricFilter.getType();
+                    out_geometricInfos.emplace(currentPair, info);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        ++progressDisplay;
+    }
+}
+
 /**
  * @brief removePoorlyOverlappingImagePairs Removes image pairs from the given list of geometric
  *  matches that have poor overlap according to the supplied criteria.