Camera Tracking with Blenders “Movie Clip Editor” can be quite time consuming, because of manual feature track refinement.
Structure from Motion (SfM) is an alternative approach, which has been extensively researched by the computer vision community.
This addon allows you to import different reconstruction file formats of several SfM libraries.
Currently, VisualSfM, OpenMVG, Colmap and Meshroom are supported.
Using this pipeline requires almost no manual steps to determine reasonable camera tracks in Blender. I hope this will speed up your workflow significantly.
The following two images show an example of an imported reconstruction and the corresponding animated camera.
