Photogrammetry & 3D Scanning
Photogrammetry, LiDAR, and Gaussian splat capture.
| Software | Description | Pricing | License | Tags | Best For |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3DF Zephyr | Free lite version (up to 50 photos). See also: Software Reference → Photogrammetry & Scanning Software |
Freemium | Free Lite · 50 Photos | Lite photogrammetry | |
| 3DF Zephyr Free | Free version of 3DF Zephyr photogrammetry software for personal use. It comes with some limitations. See also: Software Reference → Photogrammetry & Scanning Software |
Free | Free · Personal Use | Free photogrammetry | |
| Agisoft Metashape | Professional photogrammetry with GIS features. See also: Software Reference → Photogrammetry & Scanning Software |
Paid | GIS Features · Pro | Pro photogrammetry + GIS | |
| Artec Studio | Capture and alignment software for Artec handheld scanners. | Paid | Handheld Scanners · Artec | Artec handheld scan workflow | |
| CloudCompare | A 3D point cloud (and triangular mesh) processing software. Open-source and designed for visualizing and editing LiDAR and photogrammetry data. Good for alignment, meshing, cleanup, segmentation, a See also: Software Reference → Photogrammetry & Scanning Software |
Open Source | Open Source · Point Cloud | Point cloud and mesh processing | |
| COLMAP | A general-purpose Structure-from-Motion (SfM) and Multi-View Stereo (MVS) pipeline with a graphical and command-line interface. See also: Software Reference → Photogrammetry & Scanning Software |
Open Source | Photogrammetry · Open Source | Photogrammetry SfM/MVS reconstruction | |
| Depthkit | Depth-sensor volumetric capture toolkit. | Paid | Depth Sensor · Volumetric | Depth-sensor volumetric capture | |
| FARO SCENE | Capture and process FARO Focus scan data. | Paid | FARO · Point Cloud | FARO Focus pipeline | |
| Geomagic Wrap | Convert point clouds to polygon meshes (Oqton, formerly 3D Systems). | Paid | Scan to Mesh · Geomagic | Point cloud to mesh | |
| HDR Light Studio | Interactive HDRI editing and relighting tool for 3D. Bridges to Maya, 3ds Max, Houdini, Cinema 4D, Modo, Blender. See also: Software Reference → Misc 3D Utilities Software |
Paid | HDRI Editor · DCC Bridges | HDRI relighting in 3D | |
| Hugin | Free OSS panorama stitcher built on Panorama Tools. | Open Source | Open Source · Free Stitcher | Free panorama stitching | |
| KIRI Engine | Cross-platform mobile photogrammetry. See also: Software Reference → Photogrammetry & Scanning Software |
Freemium | Cross-platform · Mobile | Cross-platform mobile photogrammetry | |
| Leica Cyclone | Point cloud registration and processing for Leica scanners. | Paid | Leica · Point Cloud | Leica scan pipeline | |
| Luminance HDR | HDR workflow. Merge brackets, tonemap, convert EXR/HDR/RGBE. See also: Software Reference → Viewers & File Utilities, Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Conversion Tools |
Open Source | HDR Workflow · EXR | HDR workflow | |
| Meshroom (AliceVision) | Free, open-source photogrammetry. Node-based, GPU-accelerated. See also: Software Reference → Photogrammetry & Scanning Software |
Open Source | Open Source · Node-based | Open-source photogrammetry | |
| Open Scan Tools | A collection of open-source tools for photogrammetry, depth-sensing, and 3D reconstruction workflows. Nice rendering options for xray style. See also: Software Reference → Photogrammetry & Scanning Software |
Open Source | Open Source · Toolkit | Open-source scan toolkit | |
| OpenDroneMap / WebODM | Open source drone photogrammetry stack. | Open Source | Open Source · Drone | Open drone photogrammetry | |
| PCL (Point Cloud Library) | Large-scale open project for 2D/3D image and point cloud processing. See also: Software Reference → Photogrammetry & Scanning Software |
Open Source | Point Clouds · Open Source | Point cloud processing | |
| Pix4D | Survey and mapping photogrammetry suite. | Paid | Drone · Mapping | Drone photogrammetry | |
| Polycam | Mobile photogrammetry (iOS LiDAR + photo, Android photo). Cloud processing. See also: Software Reference → Photogrammetry & Scanning Software |
Freemium | Mobile · LiDAR | Mobile photogrammetry | |
| Postshot | Desktop Gaussian Splatting tool. Train, clean, edit, export. See also: Software Reference → Photogrammetry & Scanning Software |
Freemium | Desktop · Splat Editor | Desktop Gaussian splat | |
| PTGui Pro | Industry-standard panorama stitcher. Full HDR/bracketed support, mask painting, viewpoint correction. | ~€169 PTGui, ~€339 Pro | Paid | Industry Standard · HDR Stitcher | Pro panorama stitching for HDRI |
| Quixel Megascans | World’s largest photogrammetry 2D and 3D asset library. Now it is free for the Epic Games accounts (only UE projects). See also: Software Reference → Photogrammetry & Scanning Software |
Free | Asset Library · Epic Games | Photogrammetry asset library | |
| RealityCapture | Fast, high-quality photogrammetry (now Epic Games). PPI pricing. See also: Software Reference → Photogrammetry & Scanning Software |
Freemium | Epic Games · High-Quality | Production photogrammetry | |
| Scaniverse (Niantic) | Free mobile scanning, Gaussian splat support. See also: Software Reference → Photogrammetry & Scanning Software |
Free | Free Mobile · Gaussian Splat | Mobile scan, Gaussian splat | |
| Trimble RealWorks | Survey-grade point cloud registration and modeling. | Paid | Trimble · Survey | Survey-grade scan processing |
Related:
- 360 Gaussian Splatting. Generate gaussian splatting directly from 360 images
- 3D Gaussian Splatting (joeyan reimpl). Python/CUDA Gaussian Splatting reimplementation (MIT).
- 3D Gaussian Splatting (WangFeng18 reimpl). Python/CUDA Gaussian Splatting reimplementation (MIT).
- 3D in Geospatial: NeRFs, Gaussian Splatting, and Spatial Computing. Blog. Applying NeRFs and Gaussian Splatting to geospatial 3D mapping.
- 4DViews Paid. Volumetric capture stages and HOLOSYS rigs.
- Awesome-3DGS Paper List. Curated list of 3D Gaussian Splatting papers, maintained by MrNeRF.
- Book: High Dynamic Range Imaging (Reinhard et al.) Paid. Reinhard, Heidrich, Debevec, Pattanaik, Ward, Myszkowski. The reference text on HDR imaging.
- Compressing Gaussian Splats. PlayCanvas blog. Compressing Gaussian Splat data for the web.
- CyArk. Heritage site laser scanning archive. Free models for cultural sites worldwide.
- Direct Gaussian Style Optimization (DGSO): Stylizing 3D Gaussian Splats. Applying style transfer during gaussian optimization to produce stylized gaussian splats of a scene.
- Eisko Paid. Digital human scanning and asset service.
- Gaussian Splats Town Hall - Part 2. PixelReconstruct YouTube. Community town hall on Gaussian Splatting tooling.
- Gaussian Splatting 3D. Python/CUDA Gaussian Splatting implementation.
- Gaussian Splatting is pretty cool. Aras Pranckevicius blog. How Gaussian Splatting works under the hood.
- Gaussian Splatting Lightning. A 3D Gaussian Splatting framework with various derived algorithms and an interactive web viewer
- Infinite-Realities (Triple-I) Paid. Photogrammetry and light-stage rentals for film and games.
- Intro to gaussian splatting (and Unity plugin). Blog walkthrough of Gaussian Splatting with a Unity plugin demo.
- JaxNeRF. Deng et al., 2020. JAX NeRF with multi-device training.
- Light Probe Image Gallery. Original mirror-ball HDR probes (Grace Cathedral, Uffizi, etc.). Still used in IBL teaching.
- Making Gaussian Splats more smaller. Aras Pranckevicius blog. Further Gaussian Splat size reduction.
- Making Gaussian Splats smaller. Aras Pranckevicius blog. Shrinking Gaussian Splat file sizes.
- Meshroom. AliceVision photogrammetry pipeline. Reconstructs 3D meshes from photos.
- Metastage Paid. LA volumetric capture studio using Microsoft tech.
- Mip-NeRF. google, 2021. Anti-aliased NeRF reference implementation.
- MrNeRF (awesome-3D-gaussian-splatting). Curated awesome-list of 3D Gaussian Splatting papers, tools, and viewers.
- NeRF. Mildenhall et al., 2020. Original NeRF reference implementation.
- NeRF (PyTorch3D). facebookresearch, 2020. NeRF project inside PyTorch3D.
- NeRF-PyTorch (yenchenlin). Yen-Chen Lin, 2020. Faithful PyTorch reimplementation of NeRF.
- NeRF-PyTorch-Lightning (nerf_pl). kwea123, 2020. NeRF in PyTorch-Lightning.
- NeRF-W (nerf_pl). kwea123, 2021. NeRF in the Wild reimplementation.
- Nerfstudio gsplat. CUDA-accelerated Gaussian Splatting library integrated with Nerfstudio (Apache-2.0).
- Nerfstudio Unofficial. Unofficial Nerfstudio fork adding Gaussian Splatting support.
- Neural Rendering (YouTube). Ben Mildenhall
- Open Heritage 3D. Open scan datasets for heritage sites.
- openMVG. A library for computer-vision scientists targeted for the Multiple View Geometry community.
- Overview of Gaussian Splatting. Towards Data Science article. End-to-end overview of Gaussian Splatting.
- Paul Debevec. Site of the IBL and HDR-from-bracketed papers, Light Probe Image Gallery, Light Stage research history.
- Photogrammetry Guide. Guide to photogrammetry covering applications, libraries, and tools.
- Photogrammetry Importer. Addon to import different photogrammetry formats into Blender.
- Polyscope. A C++ & Python viewer for 3D data like meshes and point clouds.
- Smithsonian 3D. Historical artifacts.
See also: Assets & Libraries → Model Libraries: Specialized - Stanford Digital Michelangelo. Foundational large-statue laser scanning project (Marc Levoy).
- SuperSplat. A browser-based tool for inspecting, editing, optimizing and publishing 3D Gaussian Splats.
- Ten24 Paid. Full-body photogrammetry rig services for games and film.
- USC ICT Graphics Lab. Home of Light Stage research and digital-human capture papers.
- Volucap Paid. Babelsberg volumetric video studio.