[Bf-committers] GSoC 2016: Finish multi-camera reconstruction

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

FYI: Google FAQ explicitly states that students should work individually on their own project.

https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/faq

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  -  ton at blender.org   -   www.blender.org
Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute
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> On 2 Mar, 2016, at 14:58, Sergey Sharybin <sergey.vfx at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Answers are inlined.
> 
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 6:40 PM, Matthias Fauconneau <
> matthias.fauconneau at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Sergey,
>> 
>> I was thinking of participating to GSoC again this year.
>> 
> 
> That's good!
> 
> 
>> If we could allocate two slots on motion tracking, we could do an UI
>> / backend cooperation like I did with you in 2011.
>> 
> 
> Guess you're talking about collaborating with Tianwei Shen on this project?
> Then it's a bit tricky to separate scopes too much at the current state.
> Additionally, i don't see just working on interface for a new tools is a
> sufficient GSoC project. It's not _that_ much work in UI to be done anyway.
> 
> 
>> This would allow us to expand the scope of the project to make
>> sure Blender meets users requirements for VFX.
>> The other two smaller projects could be folded in since:
>> - Variable camera lens focal length support should be a matter
>> of integrating the additional parameter in the resolution.
>> 
> 
> That is indeed a nice project.
> 
> 
>> - Lens distortion estimation and grid calibration backend was done in 2011
>> and is mostly frontend work at this point.
>> 
> 
> It's not just a frontend work. The project was just a hook to OpenCV, which
> is not acceptable for Blender's upstream. Additionally, we now can do
> much-much better job on estimation/calibration using Ceres.
> 
> -- 
> With best regards, Sergey Sharybin
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