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Metal support for mac

Open Firefly35 opened this issue 4 years ago • 1 comments

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. There is no support for metal to speed colmap execution on Mac platforms.

Describe the solution you'd like I'd like to have support for a colmap accelerated version also on Mac

Describe alternatives you've considered Provide a build with metal instead of CUDA

Firefly35 avatar Mar 11 '21 09:03 Firefly35

Having a metal implementation of MVS, feature matching, and extraction would indeed be useful, but we don't have the bandwidth to work on it. You are welcome to do it yourself and contribute it back. In the meantime, the suggested work around is to use some more recent implementations based on deep learning frameworks (like PyTorch) that support a broader set of accelerators. The hloc supports this for feature extraction and matching.

sarlinpe avatar Feb 05 '24 14:02 sarlinpe