What's New?

Update 18

Job Queue: possibility to change AT and Reconstruction jobs priority from the user interface and from the SDK.
Job Queue: job queue management API no longer requires a license.
Aerotriangulation: unified AT engine combining the legacy standard engine and legacy alternate engine.
Aerotriangulation: new preset to trigger legacy standard engine and legacy alternate engine.
Aerotriangulation: improved support of GCPs to avoid breaks in the AT.
Production: new Spatial 3D Model (S3M) format for compatibility with Supermap GIS software.
Reconstruction: orthophoto engine is 20% faster.
Reconstruction: Support of LAS version 1.3 & 1.4.
Insights: ContextInsights automatic detection capabilities using Machine Learning are now integrated in ContextCapture.
Insights: ContextInsights annotations are displayed in the 3D view.
Interface: thermal and resolution measurements on mesh now displayed in the new 3D view.
Interface: survey point names are now displayed in the 3D view.
Interface: scan names are now displayed in the 3D view.
Interface: ContextCapture Cloud Processing Console installer is no longer embedded in ContextCapture installation.
Interface: icon to tell if survey points are user-tie points, GCPs or check points.

Update 17

Speed up of reconstruction (20% to 40% speed gain depending on projects).
Aerotriangulation: use positioning metadata during matching to improve robustness.
Aerotriangulation: improved robustness for rig setups.
Aerotriangulation: improved handling of disconnected components.
Upload/Download point clouds as PWCS ScanCollection.
JobQueue revamp: improved job queue performance (now based on a database).
Block 3D view/touchup UI measurement tools update/improved UX.
Add the possibility to use point clouds in orthophotos.

Update 16

New Touchup tools.
New alternate AT engine available as Preset.
New 3Dmesh format "OpenCities Planner".
New Block Export to Orbit 3DSM.
New function to merge tiled orthophotos and DSM.
Quality Control UI now available in ContextCapture edition.
New Reference Manager. Enabling cloud synchronization of Image Collections and updated reference manager UI.
Optimized reconstruction for vertical structure captured following orbit path.
Speed up of reconstruction (average 20% speed gain).

Update 15

New orthophoto workflow based on dedicated reconstruction type, including a new texturing algorithm that greatly improves the visual quality.
New aerotriangulation positioning mode management; enhanced control over adjustment and rigid registration steps.
Revamped block 3D view with new user interface and tools, including lock on photo, quality metrics, editing tools for tie points, full resolution photo display, grid display, etcetera.
Automatic detection and generation of water constraints, available in a dedicated production (Technlology preview).
Block Import tool extended to ProjectWise ContextShare.
SDK now included in the ContextCapture edition.
New capability of merging point clouds into a unique LAS or POD file.
Automatic control point registration extended to include compact tags.

Update 14

ContextCapture Cloud Processing Console embedded in the installer.
New function "Process on the cloud" to ease project migration on the cloud.
Processing time report on productions.
New Share dialog to manage publication to ProjectWise ContextShare, and new formats supported for sharing (OBJ, LAS/LAZ, FBX, POD, Orthophoto/DSM, DGN, ESRI SLPK).

Update 13

Scan import now supports scans with unknown unique source position (auto detection of source position) and POD format.
New types of tags supported for target autodetection: Chili Tags and April Tags.
New quality metrics in block 3D view (camera and survey points colorization according to error, distance to input position).
Improved performance and robustness of multipass aerotriangulation (now by default).
Other bug fixes and improvements.
ContextCapture Insights EAP.

Update 12

Splats: new textured 3D representation of tiepoints; available in a block after aerotriangulation.
New compressed block exchange format XMLZ.
Added support for mobile scan format NavVis PLY.
Support of local coordinate system with known unit (for all production workflow from scale constraint, control points, etcetera.).
Photo Navigation, a new block 3D view mode.
Grid computing now supported in ContextCapture edition (limited to 2 computers).

Update 11

Update 10

Hybrid registration photos/point clouds: new aerotriangulation positioning modes to register photos using point clouds.
New Surveys user interface with enhanced ergonomics and user assistance.
Multi-scale constraints.
Coverage map (Quality report).

Update 9

Production clipping based on region of interest
New MasterKernel SDK packaging with python wheel
New block type "Orbit" to optimize processing of scenes made of orbital views around a thin structure (cell tower, pylon, wind turbine, etc.)
Improved quality report/acquisition report (side views, distance to input positions, uncertainty ellipses, color flags, expandable sections...)
New reconstruction setting: texture source priority
New production option: texture sharpening
Surveys: new import wizard, added support of Propeller format
Region of interest import from DGN format
New web application ContextCapture Web
Viewer 2.0 for Cesium productions

Update 8

Photo multiselection in the block's 3Dview (shift/ctrl keys, rectangle, by tie point).
Faster Aerotriangulation and reconstruction.
Measurements in US survey feet (new unit system settings).
Survey points multiselection (for deletion/edition).
New camera orientation option for block XML export.
Enhanced aerotriangulation report.
Extended/improved LOD production across tiles: now supports any kind of tiling (3D, adaptive tree, etcetera).
New reconstruction settings to use only point clouds for geometry.
Surveys data import/export including control and user tie points with measurements and positioning constraints.

[beta] New Aerotriangulation preset dedicated to fine structures (eg. telecom towers, pylons).

Spatial reference system support for touchup and reconstruction constraints.
New production 3D view tab.
Surface/Volume measurement.
Export of 3D mesh with texture and level-of-detail to GoogleEarth KML.
Export of orthophoto to KML super-overlay.
Interoperability with Bentley platform: Pointools POD, 3MX support in MicroStation Connect.
Block merging (ability to merge two existing blocks from the user interface).

For more details, view the full changelog (doc/ContextCapture ChangeLog.txt) in ContextCapture installation directory.