Performance of the Automatic Bundle Adjustment in the Virtualized Environment

This article explores the level of influence of hardware virtualization on image processing efficiency, due to added software layer of a hypervisor. Paper takes the form of case study in which the capabilities of Agisoft PhotoScan's automatic bundle adjustment, are going to be evaluated in the aspect of processing time under various environment settings. All measurements will be performed using consumer grade hardware running GNU/Linux operating system together with most popular hypervisors for creating virtual machines. Also ownCloud instance will be used to simulate processing with cloud data access, along with its WebDAV interface. Data test field used to estimate processing efficiency contains block of 171 photographs arranged in 11 strips, acquired using DMC II 230 full-format aerial camera, yielding around 105GB of raw uncompressed image data.