Intellectual property

Can I sell/use 3D models created with Meshroom? Can media created with Meshroom be used for advertising, publications, training purposes, etc.?

Yes. The intellectual property of media created with Meshroom belongs to you.

Can I support Meshroom financially?

If you really like Meshroom or even use it commercially, consider becoming a sponsor. Sponsorship funds will be used to maintain AliceVision Meshroom. You can also place a one-time donation. Thank you :)

What data will you keep and how is it protected?

AliceVision Meshroom (software) does not collect or share (personal) data that might be associated with the media used or created by Meshroom. How your data is shared is up to you.

Are there any specific license agreements or restrictions for corporate use?

Meshroom is released under Mozilla Public License Version 2.0. The licence agreement can be found here: https://github.com/alicevision/meshroom/blob/develop/LICENSE-MPL2.md

Here you can find a more practical explanation of what you can do with this licence https://tldrlegal.com/license/mozilla-public-license-2.0-(mpl-2)

If you make money from or save money by using Meshroom, please consider giving back to the community. You can become a sponsor, place a one-time donation or contribute code. This will help to maintain and improve AliceVision Meshroom. Thank you.

Do I need to give credits? / Logo / How to cite

• For media created in Meshroom:

No, you do not need to give credit to Meshroom for media created with the software.

If you like the software you are free to credit it in you work.

• If you are enthusiastic about Meshroom and want to give credit (in film credits for example) you may do so. You may use the Meshroom logo (HQ). If you use the AliceVision (and not the Meshroom GUI), you may use the AV logo. We´d be happy to hear from you on how you make use of our software. You can post your use case to https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alicevision or in https://github.com/alicevision/meshroom/discussions/categories/show-and-tell

  Restriction: The logo may not be used in any way that suggests that AliceVison/Meshroom is affiliated with, sponsors, approves or endorses you, your organization, your websites, your products or your services, unless such a relationship exists.

• You can cite Meshroom in general:

@Misc{Meshroom,
  Title                    = {{Meshroom: A 3D reconstruction software.}},
  Author                   = {AliceVision},
  Year                     = {2018},
  url = {https://github.com/alicevision/meshroom}
}

• If you use this project (Alicevision) for research, please cite:

  P. Moulon, P. Monasse and R. Marlet. Adaptive Structure from Motion with a contrario model estimation. ACCV 2012.

    @inproceedings{Moulon2012,
      doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-37447-0_20},
      year  = {2012},
      publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
      pages = {257--270},
      author = {Pierre Moulon and Pascal Monasse and Renaud Marlet},
      title = {Adaptive Structure from Motion with a~Contrario Model Estimation},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the Asian Computer Vision Conference (ACCV 2012)}
    }

M. Jancosek, T. Pajdla. Multi-view reconstruction preserving weakly-supported surfaces. CVPR 2011.

    @inproceedings{Jancosek2011,
      doi = {10.1109/cvpr.2011.5995693},
      url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.2011.5995693},
      year  = {2011},
      month = {jun},
      publisher = {{IEEE}},
      author = {Michal Jancosek and Tomas Pajdla},
      title = {Multi-view reconstruction preserving weakly-supported surfaces},
      booktitle = {{CVPR} 2011}
    }