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In this article, I will share some of my experience on installing the NVIDIA driver and CUDA. I will mainly use Ubuntu as example. Comments for CentOS/Fedora are also provided as much as I can.

• Install NVIDIA Graphics Driver via apt-get
• Install NVIDIA Graphics Driver via runfile
  • Remove Previous Installations (Important)
  • Download the Driver
  • Install Dependencies
  • Creat Blacklist for Nouveau Driver

• Stop lightdm/gdm/kdm

Probably the most straight forward way to start generating Point Clouds from a set of pictures.

VisualSFM is a GUI application for 3D reconstruction using structure from motion (SFM). The reconstruction system integrates several of my previous projects: SIFT on GPU(SiftGPU), Multicore Bundle Adjustment, and Towards Linear-time Incremental Structure from Motion. VisualSFM runs fast by exploiting multicore parallelism for feature detection, feature matching, and bundle adjustment.

For dense reconstruction, this program supports Yasutaka Furukawa's PMVS/CMVS tool chain, and can prepare data for Michal Jancosek's CMP-MVS. In addition, the output of VisualSFM is natively supported by Mathias Rothermel and Konrad Wenzel's [SURE]