MVE

What MVE is

MVE is desktop software for reconstructing geometry from photographs, with a pipeline that covers Structure-from-Motion, Multi-View Stereo, dense depth maps, and surface meshes. Its tools help build photo datasets, estimate camera parameters, and work with multi-view data for algorithm development. An API organizes scenes as views containing camera parameters, images, and other data. The makescene utility imports from Bundler, VisualSfM, and OpenMVG. Image tools handle PNG, JPG, TIFF, PFM, and PPM files; mesh tools support OFF, PLY, and PBRT. The Qt-based UMVE interface can inspect scenes and 3D structure, manage views and image embeddings, render triangle meshes, and triangulate depth maps. MVE is free for Linux, macOS, and Windows. Building requires libjpeg, libpng, and libtiff; the ogl library and UMVE use OpenGL, and UMVE also requires Qt 5. The project is in maintenance mode, with new features rarely added. Its BSD 3-Clause license file cautions that SIFT and SURF algorithms may be patented or otherwise restricted in some countries.