diff --git a/libs/MVS/DepthMap.cpp b/libs/MVS/DepthMap.cpp
index 99fc24643..4ae4ef36e 100644
--- a/libs/MVS/DepthMap.cpp
+++ b/libs/MVS/DepthMap.cpp
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ DEFVAR_OPTDENSE_uint32(nMinViews, "Min Views", "minimum number of agreeing views
 MDEFVAR_OPTDENSE_uint32(nMaxViews, "Max Views", "maximum number of neighbor images used to compute the depth-map for the reference image", "12")
 DEFVAR_OPTDENSE_uint32(nMinViewsFuse, "Min Views Fuse", "minimum number of images that agrees with an estimate during fusion in order to consider it inlier", "2")
 MDEFVAR_OPTDENSE_uint32(nMaxViewsFuse, "Max Views Fuse", "maximum number of neighbor depth-maps used during fusion", "32")
-DEFVAR_OPTDENSE_uint32(nMinViewsFilter, "Min Views Filter", "minimum number of images that agrees with an estimate in order to consider it inlier", "2")
+DEFVAR_OPTDENSE_uint32(nMinViewsFilter, "Min Views Filter", "minimum number of images that agrees with an estimate in order to consider it inlier", "1")
 MDEFVAR_OPTDENSE_uint32(nMinViewsFilterAdjust, "Min Views Filter Adjust", "minimum number of images that agrees with an estimate in order to consider it inlier (0 - disabled)", "1")
 MDEFVAR_OPTDENSE_uint32(nMinViewsTrustPoint, "Min Views Trust Point", "min-number of views so that the point is considered for approximating the depth-maps (<2 - random initialization)", "2")
 MDEFVAR_OPTDENSE_uint32(nNumViews, "Num Views", "Number of views used for depth-map estimation (0 - all views available)", "0", "4", "8")
diff --git a/libs/MVS/SceneDensify.cpp b/libs/MVS/SceneDensify.cpp
index 96f321d30..d3764a49d 100644
--- a/libs/MVS/SceneDensify.cpp
+++ b/libs/MVS/SceneDensify.cpp
@@ -924,14 +924,10 @@ bool DepthMapsData::FilterDepthMap(DepthData& depthDataRef, const IIndexArr& idx
 
 	// count valid neighbor depth-maps
 	ASSERT(depthDataRef.IsValid() && !depthDataRef.IsEmpty());
-	const IIndex N = idxNeighbors.GetSize();
+	const IIndex N = idxNeighbors.size();
 	ASSERT(OPTDENSE::nMinViewsFilter > 0 && scene.nCalibratedImages > 1);
-	const IIndex nMinViews(MINF(OPTDENSE::nMinViewsFilter,scene.nCalibratedImages-1));
-	const IIndex nMinViewsAdjust(MINF(OPTDENSE::nMinViewsFilterAdjust,scene.nCalibratedImages-1));
-	if (N < nMinViews || N < nMinViewsAdjust) {
-		DEBUG("error: depth map %3u can not be filtered", depthDataRef.GetView().GetID());
-		return false;
-	}
+	const IIndex nMinViews(MINF(OPTDENSE::nMinViewsFilter, N));
+	const IIndex nMinViewsAdjust(MINF(OPTDENSE::nMinViewsFilterAdjust, N));
 
 	// project all neighbor depth-maps to this image
 	const DepthData::ViewData& imageRef = depthDataRef.images.First();