COLMAP
- Software
- Perception
- Tool
COLMAP is a general-purpose Structure-from-Motion and Multi-View Stereo pipeline with graphical and command-line interfaces, for reconstructing 3D scenes from image collections.
Made by COLMAP project.
Source on GitHub: github.com/colmap/colmap (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit c08f96c (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- BSD-3-Clause (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (BSD-3-Clause) at commit c08f96c (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Reconstructs ordered and unordered image collections using Structure-from-Motion and Multi-View Stereo.
- Offers both a graphical interface and a command-line interface.
- Includes an automatic reconstruction mode that builds models with a single click or command.
- Provides a global SfM pipeline (GLOMAP) and an image retrieval engine based on a vocabulary tree.
- Available as Windows and Linux binaries, Docker images, conda packages and Python bindings (pycolmap).
- Python bindings include CUDA-enabled wheels, and AMD GPUs are supported via HIP/ROCm when building from source.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit c08f96c.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Advanced
- Hardware it needs, as the project states it
- CUDA-enabled wheels exist for NVIDIA GPUs; AMD GPUs are supported via HIP/ROCm when building from source.
- How to start
- The project's website (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Active: a commit in the last 90 days
- Newest commit
- 16 Oct 2026 on main
- Latest release
- 4.2.1 (29 Sept 2026)
Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.
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