Guided matching¶
Status: stub. This page is the structural example for the feature encyclopedia (
STRATEGY.mdD12). It will be populated as the alignment wave produces material.
What it is¶
Guided matching is an option of the Match Photos / Align Photos step that asks Metashape to use the rough camera-pair geometry from initial matching to find additional tie points the regular match step missed. It typically increases tie-point count and connectedness at the cost of alignment time.
Where it lives¶
| Standard | Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| GUI | Workflow → Align Photos → Advanced → Guided image matching | (same) |
| Python | Metashape.Chunk.matchPhotos(guided_matching=True, ...) |
(Pro only) |
| Available since | to be confirmed | to be confirmed |
Documented in the official manual¶
- To be filled in once a wave article references this feature; capture the manual section / page.
Related concepts¶
Articles in this manual¶
- Diagnosing under-aligned chunks — the canonical "clean" alignment settings explicitly recommend guided matching disabled.
Forum threads worth reading¶
A curated list of forum threads that contain substantive discussion of
guided matching. Each entry shows the date and the product version
current at that date (per STRATEGY.md D11).
| Date | Version | Author | Thread | One-line takeaway |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stub | stub | stub | stub | Populated as insight cards on this feature accumulate. |
Caveats¶
Reserved for version-specific behaviour notes (e.g. "Metashape 2.x behaves differently from 1.x: …") and known interactions with other features.