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

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi Thomas,

You're very welcome! Having stakeholder-users on board for GSoC projects is a huge benefit for the student (and everyone).

-Ton-

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> On 3 Mar, 2016, at 19:13, Thomas Beck <software at plasmasolutions.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi Matthias,
> 
> as we use the Blender camera tracker pretty often in our projects, we'll
> follow this GSOC closely. One feature that we were really missing
> (especially in long shots with many easily distinguishable tracking points)
> is the possibility to automatically track our footage. It should work in a
> similar fashion as "throw in markers every frame automatically so you get a
> good coverage, track those until they get lost, erase the obviously
> erroneous markers, solve it". We talked with Keir at Bconf 2014 and he said
> there is smth. was planned by Sergey and him. So maybe this could be a
> (side-) project as well...
> 
> Best regards,
> Thomas
> 
> 
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> 2016-03-03 16:57 GMT+01:00 Jed <jedfrechette at gmail.com>:
> 
>> Matthias Fauconneau wrote
>>> I am not sure how the interest in Blender VFX is these days, maybe
>>> there are some other features users are looking forward too.
>> 
>> I haven't been following development closely so this may already have been
>> implemented, but last time I checked one of the big features missing from
>> Blender's tracker was the ability to use known 3D points to constrain its
>> solves. There's a good chance productions using witness cameras to improve
>> their solves will also be doing set surveys, whether that's with a tape
>> measure, total station, or lidar; so the ability to utilize that geometry
>> data would be very valuable.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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