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

[Matthias Fauconneau]

Hi Thomas,

During GSoC11, I developed 3 detectors and an API which Sergey used to
expose feature detection in Blender.
I do not know why it did not make the final cut, maybe it was not
polished enough yet to be useful for production.
I think, at this point, Sergey knows best the latest state of the
motion tracking features and would be the one most able to sort out
all your ideas into useful projects.
It is not trivial to estimate beforehand how much work is involved in
specific features, but should the main project (multiview) shorter
than expected, I would be open to complete with sides.
The main priority would still be to first make sure the new tool is
properly integrated, known and tested.
Especially since there will be no VFX open project to finish things off.
As Ton says, since we have the benefit of having the users we develop
for around, there is certainly some room to guide the direction of the
work on the project.

Best regards,
Matthias

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 7:13 PM, 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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