From 09769e3f313e026101110273f959321ead48f295 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tamir Cohen <41875509+TamirCohen@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2024 18:57:06 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Remove unused model_aligner flags from docs

---
 doc/faq.rst             | 9 +++------
 src/colmap/exe/model.cc | 5 +----
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/faq.rst b/doc/faq.rst
index 69c00fbc44..b4b58cdfbb 100644
--- a/doc/faq.rst
+++ b/doc/faq.rst
@@ -244,13 +244,10 @@ transformation. Then, the model can be geo-registered using::
         --ref_images_path /path/to/text-file (or --database_path /path/to/database.db) \
         --ref_is_gps 1 \
         --alignment_type ecef \
-        --robust_alignment 1 \
-        --robust_alignment_max_error 3.0 (where 3.0 is the error threshold to be used in RANSAC)
+        --alignment_max_error 3.0 (where 3.0 is the error threshold to be used in RANSAC)
 
-By default, the robust_alignment flag is set to 1.  If this flag is set, a 3D similarity
-transformation will be estimated with a RANSAC estimator to be robust to potential outliers
-in the data.  In such case, it is required to provide the error threshold to be used in the 
-RANSAC estimator.
+A 3D similarity transformation will be estimated with a RANSAC estimator to be robust to potential outliers
+in the data. It is required to provide the error threshold to be used in the RANSAC estimator.
 
 Manhattan world alignment
 -------------------------
diff --git a/src/colmap/exe/model.cc b/src/colmap/exe/model.cc
index 886bb4dc06..bdf80df9ae 100644
--- a/src/colmap/exe/model.cc
+++ b/src/colmap/exe/model.cc
@@ -262,10 +262,7 @@ void PrintComparisonSummary(std::ostream& out,
 // the estimate an alignment
 // - estimate_scale: if true apply the computed scale when aligning the
 // reconstruction
-// - robust_alignment: if true use a ransac-based estimation for robust
-// alignment
-// - robust_alignment_max_error: ransac error to use if robust alignment is
-// enabled
+// - alignment_max_error: ransac error to use
 int RunModelAligner(int argc, char** argv) {
   std::string input_path;
   std::string output_path;