Users

• At Google, Ceres is used to:
  • Estimate the pose of Street View cars, aircrafts, and satellites.
  • Build 3D models for PhotoTours.
  • Estimate satellite image sensor characteristics.
  • Stitch panoramas on Android and iOS.
  • Apply Lens Blur on Android.
  • Solve bundle adjustment and SLAM problems in Project Tango.
• Willow Garage uses Ceres to solve SLAM problems.
• Southwest Research Institute uses Ceres for calibrating robot-camera systems.
• Blender uses Ceres for planar tracking and bundle adjustment.
• OpenMVG an open source multi-view geometry library uses Ceres for bundle adjustment.
• Microsoft Research uses Ceres for nonlinear optimization of objectives involving subdivision surfaces under skinned control meshes.
• Matterport, uses Ceres for global alignment of 3D point clouds and for pose graph optimization.
• Obvious Engineering uses Ceres for bundle adjustment for their 3D photography app Seene.
• The Autonomous Systems Lab at ETH Zurich uses Ceres for
  • Camera and Camera/IMU Calibration.
  • Large scale optimization of visual, inertial, gps and wheel-odometry data for long term autonomy.
• OpenPTrack uses Ceres for camera calibration.
• The Intelligent Autonomous System Lab at University of Padova, Italy, uses Ceres for
  • Camera/depth sensors network calibration.
  • Depth sensor distortion map estimation.
• Theia is an open source Structure from Motion library that uses Ceres for bundle adjustment and camera pose estimation.
• The Applied Research Laboratory at Pennsylvania State University uses in their synthetic aperture Sonar beamforming engine, called ASASIN , for estimating platform kinematics.