A python implementation of DTU MVS 2014 evaluation. It only takes 1min for each mesh evaluation. And the gap between the two implementations is negligible.

This script requires the following dependencies.

numpy open3d scikit-learn tqdm scipy multiprocessing argparse

Download the STL point clouds and Sample Set and prepare the ground truth folder as follows.

<dataset_dir>
- Points
    - stl
        - stlxxx_total.ply
- ObsMask
    - ObsMaskxxx_10.mat
    - Planexxx.mat

Run the evaluation script (e.g. scan24, mesh mode)

python eval.py --data <input> --scan 24 --mode mesh --dataset_dir <dataset_dir> --vis_out_dir <out_dir_for_visualization>

There is randomness in point cloud downsampling in both versions. It iterates through the points and delete the points with distance < 0.2. So the order of points matters. We randomly shuffle the points before downsampling.

We evaluate a set of meshes from Colmap and compare the results. We run our script 10 times and take the average.

vis_xxx_d2s.ply and vis_xxx_s2d.ply are error visualizations.

• Blue: Out of bounding box or ObsMask
• Green: Errors larger than threshold (20)
• White to Red: Errors counted in the reported statistics