PIX4Dmatic generates a quality report that can be used to get an overview of the project and assess its accuracy and quality.
The following is available:
- General report is generated after running the Calibrate or Reoptimize cameras step:
- Click the Report
panel.
- Click the Report
- Detailed quality report (.pdf). To export the detailed quality report:
- In the Report panel, Click
- In the Processing options panel, check Exports - Quality report.
- On the Menu bar > File, click Export quality report...
- In the Report panel, Click
IN THIS ARTICLE
Project summary
Project details
Calibration
Depth*
Densification
Depth and dense*
Mesh
Digital Surface Model (DSM)
Orthomosaic
Tie points
The following table describes the content of the quality report:
Project summary | |
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Version | The version of the software used to process the project. |
Project name | The name of the project. |
Date | The date the project was processed. |
Project details | |
Average GSD (units) | The average ground sampling distance of the original images. For more information, see Ground sampling distance (GSD). |
Project coordinate reference system |
The horizontal and vertical coordinate system used for processing. When the vertical coordinate reference system is not specified, the base ellipsoid of the horizontal coordinate is used. |
Camera name(s) | The name of the camera model(s) used to capture the images. |
Number of images | The total number of images. |
Calibration | |
Internals confidence |
For more information see Processing options - Internals confidence. |
Image scale | The value of the image scale used for keypoints extraction.
For more information, see Processing options - Image Scale. |
Max extracted keypoint |
For more information, see Processing options - Keypoints. |
Reoptimized |
For more information, see Processing options - Reoptimize cameras. |
Use depth maps* |
When enabled the depth maps generated with PIX4Dcatch are used for better calibration:
For more information, see Processing options - Use depth maps (Optional). |
Duration | The time needed for processing the Calibrate step.
When Reoptimize cameras option is used, the time corresponds only to the Reoptimize camera pipeline and not to the whole Calibrate step. |
Completed (%) | The percentage of images that have been calibrated, i.e., the number of images that will be used or have been used for the reconstruction. |
Calibrated images | The number of calibrated images. |
Uncalibrated images | The number of uncalibrated images. |
Camera optimization (%) | The percentage of the difference between initial and optimized focal length of the camera. |
Median number of matches per camera | The median of keypoints per image. Keypoints are characteristic points or unique combinations of pixels that are detected in an image. |
Depth* | |
Duration | The time needed for processing the Depth step. |
Densification | |
Noise filter |
For more information, see Processing options - Noise filter. |
Density | Defines the density of the point cloud:
For more information, see Processing options - Density. |
Image scale |
For more information, see Processing options - Image scale. |
Min number of matches | Minimum Number of Matches (2-6, 3 default) represents the minimum number of valid re-projections of this 3D point to the images.
For more information, see Processing options - Minumum matches. |
Multiscale |
For more information, see Processing options - Multiscale. |
Sky filter |
For more information, see Processing options - Sky filter. |
Duration | The time needed for processing the Densify step. |
Depth and dense* | |
Distance |
The minimum distance [units] from a depth point to the dense point cloud for fusing it. For more information, see Processing options - Depth and dense. |
Duration | The time needed for processing the Depth step. |
Mesh | |
Decimation |
|
Input point cloud* |
It shows which input is select as the input point cloud for the Mesh generation. For more information, see Processing options - Input point cloud. |
Decimation, Maximum triangle count |
The maximum number of triangles in the final Mesh, by default 1.000.000 triangles. For more information, see Processing options - Decimation. |
Texture size |
Texture Size (1024x1024 - 32768x32768 pixels, default 8192x8192 pixels). For more information, see Processing options - Texture size. |
Duration | The time needed for processing the Mesh step. |
Digital Surface Model (DSM) | |
Input point cloud* |
This processing option defines which point cloud is used for the DSM generation:
|
Resolution | The resolution used to generate the DSM. If the mean GSD computed at the Calibrate step is used, its value is displayed. |
Surface smoothing | The radius of the median filter used for surface smoothing of the DSM (0 - 5, 2 - default).
For more information, see Processing options - Surface smoothing. |
Interpolation | The Interpolation parameters affect the completeness of the generated DSM:
For more information, see Processing options - Interpolation . |
Duration | The time needed for processing the Digital Surface Model (DSM) step. |
Orthomosaic | |
Resolution | The resolution used to generate the Orthomosaic. If the mean GSD computed at the Calibrate step is used, its value is displayed. |
Duration | The time needed for processing the Orthomosaic step. |
Tie points | |
Number of Tie Points | The total number of Tie Points (GCPs, MTPs, and checkpoints). |
GCP coordinate reference system | The coordinate system of the ground control points.
When the vertical coordinate reference system is not specified, the base ellipsoid of the horizontal coordinate is used. |
Mean position error X/Y/Z (unit) | The average error in each direction, i.e., XYZ, of the ground control points. For more information, see How are the GCP Errors defined in the Quality Report?. |
Sigma position error X/Y/Z (unit) | The standard deviation of the error in each direction, i.e., XYZ, of the ground control points. For more information, see How are the GCP Errors defined in the Quality Report?. |
RMS position error X/ Y/Z (unit) |
The root mean square error in each direction, i.e., XYZ, of the ground control points. For more information, see How are the GCP Errors defined in the Quality Report?. |
Tie Point name | The name of the Tie Point. |
Type | The type of the Tie Point:
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Accuracy X/Y (unit) | The horizontal accuracy of the initial position of the ground control point. |
Accuracy Z (unit) | The vertical accuracy of the initial position of the ground control point. |
Position error X (unit) | The difference between the computed and the initial position of the ground control point in the X-axis, i.e., initial position - computed position. |
Position error Y (unit) | The difference between the computed and the initial position of the ground control point in the Y-axis, i.e., initial position - computed position. |
Position error Z (unit) | The difference between the computed and the initial position of the ground control point in the Z-axis, i.e., initial position - computed position. |
Reprojection error min (px) | The minimum reprojection error of the Tie Point on images. |
Reprojection error max (px) | The maximum reprojection error of the Tie Point on images. |
Reprojection error mean (px) | The average distance between where the ground control point was marked in an image and the reprojection of the computed position of the ground control point in the same image. |
Marks | The ratio between the number of marks and the number of valid reprojections. |
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