{"id":6115,"date":"2017-04-06T12:26:22","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T10:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenhese.de\/sailpower-blog\/?p=6115"},"modified":"2017-04-06T12:26:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T10:26:34","slug":"speeding-up-agisoft-photoscan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailpower.de\/?p=6115","title":{"rendered":"Speeding up Agisoft Photoscan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some of the copter data processing folks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agisoft.com\">Agisoft Photoscan<\/a> turns out to be the most important tool\/software to calculate point clouds, orthoimages and nadir data mosaics from copter \u00a0photographs.<\/p>\n<p>Problem: very long processing times with dense point cloud calculations with high or ultra-high settings (full resolution image matching with SfM (Structure from Motion) algorithms).<\/p>\n<p>Some nice net finds show how multicore processing has its limits and why you should invest into GPU performance &#8230; and in high end 3D graphic cards.<\/p>\n<p>Combining more than 20 CPU cores doesnt seem to speed up the process and combining more than 4 GPU systems also doesnt seem to help. There is only a minimal speed increase when you add more CPUs and or more GPUs when a 24 core system is already installed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/download\/driverResults.aspx\/115283\/en-us\">http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/download\/driverResults.aspx\/115283\/en-us<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.agisoft.com\/downloads\/system-requirements\/\">http:\/\/www.agisoft.com\/downloads\/system-requirements\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pugetsystems.com\/labs\/articles\/Agisoft-PhotoScan-GPU-Acceleration-710\/\">https:\/\/www.pugetsystems.com\/labs\/articles\/Agisoft-PhotoScan-GPU-Acceleration-710\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It boils down to a dedicated system with 2-4 Graphic cards with 3D acceleration (GTX-1080ti cards from Nvidea or if you can afford it a TESLA p100 based system), with approx 64-128 GB RAM and a dual i7 system setup.<\/p>\n<p>mtk &#8211; S\u00f6ren<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some of the copter data processing folks Agisoft Photoscan turns out to be the most important tool\/software to calculate point clouds, orthoimages and nadir data mosaics from copter \u00a0photographs. Problem: very long processing times with dense point cloud calculations with high or ultra-high settings (full resolution image matching with SfM (Structure from Motion) algorithms). Some nice net finds show&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,40],"tags":[117,123,119],"class_list":["post-6115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copterphotography","category-workflow","tag-copter","tag-drohnenfotografie","tag-multicopter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpower.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpower.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpower.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpower.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpower.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpower.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6117,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpower.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6115\/revisions\/6117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpower.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpower.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpower.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}