The install process for Alicevision and Meshroom is a pain in the ass, I basically gave up at some point, would love to hear some input from others though. I'm currently using OpenSFM and it works great, just very slow.
It's really nice! I read more about the project and it's apparently always been open source. It looks like a high quality project run by some researchers with university and EU backing. I've been trying to reconstruct large outdoor environments for robotics simulation and this might be just what I need!
Nice. I don't have a clear plan for localization yet. Right now I am working on deep net based trail following. [1] Eventually I will probably do some kind of vision based localization. [2]
If you can share info on your project I'd love to see it!
I can't unfortunately, work stuff, but definitely check out this if you haven't already https://github.com/xdspacelab/openvslam Also that ethz-asl repo contains a library called libpointmatcher, its pretty awesome if you ever need to do point cloud alignment
I actually have had really good success with it outdoors, much better than indoor. Worth trying out at least, very easy to get started with if you can use docker
