Ubuntu 24.04

[NathanMOlson]

This PR brings in the latest updates from nmoehrle/mvs-texturing.

[NathanMOlson]

@smathermather the change log looks different here than I expect. I think maybe you created the ODM branch off of 101 (or something old, not 300?

In the ODM forum, you said "It’s not apples-to-apples, given upstreaming to e.g. MVS-Texturing without some of the texturing mods...Unsurprisingly, missing MVS-Texturing features specific to orthophotos". However, I believe this contains all the ODM-specific changes from 300. Can you send me the command line to run to check the orthophoto functionality?

[smathermather]

The heat must be getting to me. This is now branched off 300. Let me double check the other ODM branches and make sure my branching is correct. Will confirm on OpenDroneMap/ODM#1904 once complete.

As far as changes to support orthos, you'll see API changes allowing for the choice of the most nadir texture instead of the most orthogonal texture, and we can see that in the roof looking brighter on all facets in the Toledo test dataset:

It's a minor thing, but in complicated datasets, it makes a big difference in ensuring the most orthogonal view for the orthophoto, which improves corners and edges substantially.

[NathanMOlson]

@smathermather Thanks, the changelog looks as expected now.

As you can see, the changes from 300 are pretty minimal, and none look like they would effect the orthophoto... maybe the issue is happening outside mvs-texturing. I'll dig in further.

[smathermather]

As you can see, the changes from 300 are pretty minimal, and none look like they would effect the orthophoto... maybe the issue is happening outside mvs-texturing. I'll dig in further.

It's probably no longer an issue? You had the version I was testing pointed to upstream which lacks an exposed --nadir-weight.

Relevant pull request here:
#6

[NathanMOlson]

It's probably no longer an issue? You had the version I was testing pointed to upstream which lacks an exposed --nadir-weight.

Hmm, I haven't published any versions that pointed to an upstream mvs-texturing. So I think there's still an issue to resolve here.

[smathermather]

I'm sure it was user error on my part. Currently testing with https://github.com/NathanMOlson/ODM and getting fine results (differences are due to mvs-texturing being non-deterministic when multi-threaded):