About the ply file

[ZhenyuSun-Walker]

Hello sir, I'm sorry to bother you. But I found that it can be tricky to adjust the ply file format to match the dataset_reader of your model. Which kind of .ply file can be processed by MVSGS? I'm quite confused with that.

[TQTQliu]

Hi, the point cloud obtained by colmap can be also used as initialization. I'm not quite sure why your point cloud doesn't work, perhaps you could provide some additional information.

[ZhenyuSun-Walker]

Actually, I use the ply generated from the Dust3R, however, I cannot find the exact difference between its ply file and the ply file generated from your work.

[TQTQliu]

The dtype of a point cloud should contain the following items:

# Define the dtype for the structured array
    dtype = [('x', 'f4'), ('y', 'f4'), ('z', 'f4'),
            ('nx', 'f4'), ('ny', 'f4'), ('nz', 'f4'),
            ('red', 'u1'), ('green', 'u1'), ('blue', 'u1')]

I suspect that the point cloud obtained through Dust3R is missing certain properties, which you can check.

Or you can share the point cloud saving code of dust3r with me, and I'll be also happy to check it out for you.

[ZhenyuSun-Walker]

Thanks for your suggestions! Maybe we can have further communications by email.

[TQTQliu]

No problem, if you have further questions, feel free to contact me (tq_liu@hust.edu.cn).

[ZhenyuSun-Walker]

Actually, I used the InstantSplat to help convert the pointcloud file (which is glb. format) from Dust3R into ply format, but things went strange when it comes to read the ply file with dataset_reader of mvsgs, but the ply file can be read by InstantSplat. And I have checked the dataset_reader code of InstantSplat, and the following part
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Define the dtype for the structured array

dtype = [('x', 'f4'), ('y', 'f4'), ('z', 'f4'),
        ('nx', 'f4'), ('ny', 'f4'), ('nz', 'f4'),
        ('red', 'u1'), ('green', 'u1'), ('blue', 'u1')]

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is actually the same.

[ZhenyuSun-Walker]

No problem, if you have further questions, feel free to contact me (tq_liu@hust.edu.cn).

OK, I'll contact you through that .

[TQTQliu]

Actually, I used the InstantSplat to help convert the pointcloud file (which is glb. format) from Dust3R into ply format, but things went strange when it comes to read the ply file with dataset_reader of mvsgs, but the ply file can be read by InstantSplat. And I have checked the dataset_reader code of InstantSplat, and the following part `

Define the dtype for the structured array

dtype = [('x', 'f4'), ('y', 'f4'), ('z', 'f4'),
        ('nx', 'f4'), ('ny', 'f4'), ('nz', 'f4'),
        ('red', 'u1'), ('green', 'u1'), ('blue', 'u1')]

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is actually the same.

Okay, I'll check it out later.