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README.md

@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ Getting Started
 ---------------
 
 1. Download the pre-built binaries from
-   https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_oNOlzQHU_Ha2hkdlRQYzQ4RDA#list
-   or build the library manually as described in the documentation.
+   http://people.inf.ethz.ch/jschoenb/colmap/ or build the library manually as
+   described in the documentation.
 2. Watch the short introductory video at
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-EC0DzeVEU or read the tutorial
    in the documentation for more details.

doc/index.rst

@@ -13,15 +13,15 @@ General Public License. If you use this project for your research, please cite::
         year={2016},
     }
 
-The latest source code is available at https://github.com/colmap/colmap.
+The source code is available at https://github.com/colmap/colmap.
 
 
 Getting Started
 ---------------
 
-1. Download the pre-built binaries from `Google Drive
-   <https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_oNOlzQHU_Ha2hkdlRQYzQ4RDA#list>`_
-   or build the library manually (see :ref:`Installation <installation>`).
+1. Download the pre-built binaries from
+   http://people.inf.ethz.ch/jschoenb/colmap/ or build the library manually
+   (see :ref:`Installation <installation>`).
 2. Watch the short introductory video at
    `YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-EC0DzeVEU>`_ or read the tutorial
    for more details (see :ref:`Tutorial <tutorial>`).

doc/install.rst

@@ -3,16 +3,19 @@
 Installation
 ============
 
-You can either download one of the pre-built binaries from the project website
-or build the source code manually. It builds on all major platforms with minimal
-effort: Linux, Mac, and Windows. First, checkout the latest source code::
+You can either download one of the pre-built binaries from
+http://people.inf.ethz.ch/jschoenb/colmap/ or build the source code manually. It
+builds on all major platforms (Linux, Mac, Windows) with minimal effort. First,
+checkout the latest source code::
 
     git clone https://github.com/colmap/colmap
 
 
 Linux
 -----
 
+*Recommended dependencies:* CUDA.
+
 Dependencies from default Ubuntu 14.04 repositories::
 
     sudo apt-get install \
@@ -47,14 +50,12 @@ Configure and compile COLMAP::
     cmake ..
     make -j
 
-External dependencies: Ceres-Solver .
-
-*Recommended dependencies:* CUDA.
-
 
 Mac
 ---
 
+*Recommended dependencies:* CUDA.
+
 Dependencies from `Homebrew <http://brew.sh/>`_::
 
     brew tap homebrew/science
@@ -72,7 +73,6 @@ Dependencies from `Homebrew <http://brew.sh/>`_::
 
 Create `LocalConfig.cmake` in COLMAP base directory with::
 
-    message(STATUS "NOTE: Using LocalConfig.cmake to override CMake settings in the GUI")
     set(Qt5_CMAKE_DIR "/usr/local/opt/qt5/lib/cmake")
     set(Qt5Core_DIR ${Qt5_CMAKE_DIR}/Qt5Core)
     set(Qt5OpenGL_DIR ${Qt5_CMAKE_DIR}/Qt5OpenGL)
@@ -84,8 +84,6 @@ Configure and compile COLMAP::
     cmake ..
     make -j
 
-*Recommended dependencies:* CUDA.
-
 
 Windows
 -------
@@ -95,6 +93,8 @@ process of configuring CMake less painful, please have a look at
 `LocalConfigExample.config`. MSVC12 (Microsoft Visual Studio 2013) and newer are
 confirmed to compile COLMAP without any issues.
 
+*Recommended dependencies:* CUDA.
+
 
 Documentation
 -------------

doc/tutorial.rst

@@ -204,13 +204,13 @@ matching modes, that are intended for different input scenarios:
   `image0002.jpg`, etc.). You can verify the correct order in the database
   management tool (see :ref:`Database Format <database-format>`). Note that
   loop detection requires a pre-trained vocabulary tree, that can be downloaded
-  from the project website.
+  from http://people.inf.ethz.ch/jschoenb/colmap/.
 
 * **Vocabulary Tree Matching**: In this matching mode, every image is matched
   against its visual nearest neighbors using a vocabulary tree. This is the
   recommended matching mode for large image collections (several thousands).
   This requires a pre-trained vocabulary tree, that can be downloaded from
-  the project website.
+  http://people.inf.ethz.ch/jschoenb/colmap/.
 
 * **Spatial Matching**: This matching mode matches every image against its
   spatial nearest neighbors. Spatial locations can be manually set in the
@@ -360,6 +360,18 @@ you can use COLMAP only for feature extraction and matching or you can import
 your own features and matches to only use COLMAP's incremental reconstruction
 algorithm.
 
+
+Graphical and Command-line Interface
+------------------------------------
+
+Most of COLMAP's features are accessible from the graphical and the command-line
+interface. All binaries accept a ``./bin -h`` (help) argument to list the
+available options. You can provide the options directly as command-line
+arguments or you can provide a `.ini` project configuration file containing the
+options as the ``./bin --project_path`` argument. To start the GUI application,
+please execute `src/exe/colmap`.
+
+
 .. rubric:: Footnotes
 
 .. [#f1] VisualSfM's projection model applies the distortion to the measurements