A Comparative Analysis of Two Commercial Digital Photogrammetry Software for Cultural Heritage Applications

摘要

The paper seeks to evaluate the literature on digital photogrammetry processing software, comparing Agisoft Photoscan (now known as Agisoft Metashape, beginning with version 1.5) RealityCapture and to test the two programs in a real-world situation to further examine the difference in the software and resulting model. Tests were carried out for the evaluation of Photoscan, and RealityCapure—two European based digital photogrammetry programs—using the same artifact and data in all three tests. The artifact is part of the Farid Karam Collection of Antiquities, housed at the University of South Florida (USF) Libraries Tampa Special Collections. The chosen artifact for study, the aryballos inv. no. 68, was captured in ideal conditions to better evaluate multiple programs with the same data. The digital artifact was examined based upon knowledge and photographs of the physical artifact and evaluated relatively and comparatively between the programs.