Abstracted workflow framework with a structure from motion application

It is common for many disparate software tools to be developed in both open source and proprietary environments, which are incompatible and leave the community with disposable software. As such, a processing workflow has been abstracted and implemented in a generic fashion, where the core engine can be easily extended into domains for applications that require functionality from many independent components. Specifically, there have been a host of tools developed to address the structure from motion (SfM) domain that require interfacing in order to create a functional system. Many application-specific solutions have been constructed that are inflexible and repeatedly duplicated. The theory of operation behind the core framework and components for the SfM application are presented to demonstrate how the abstracted workflow can be easily applied to generate 3D models from 2D imagery of a scene captured from multiple cameras and varying perspectives.