[Bf-vfx] Non-square shapes for pattern and search areas

[julien michot]

This is not *yet* a planar tracker!

What do you think about planar trackers, are they more efficient or easier
to use?
Would it be useful to implement one in libmv?

-julien

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:28 PM, François T. <francoistarlier at gmail.com>wrote:

> I don't know why you would need that. This is not planar tracking, so it
> really doesn't matter at the end.
>
> F.
>
> 2011/7/20 Sergey I. Sharybin <g.ulairi at gmail.com>
>
>>  Hi everyone!
>>
>> It was got discussion today in #lbmv at irc.freenode.net related on
>> forcing pattern/search area be square.
>>
>> Main question: is non-square shape of marker useful in motion tracking
>> workflow?
>>
>> Some quick cases i could think could be solved just adding offset to
>> search area or by resizing this areas.  But we've checked some tracking
>> applications and they allow to use non-square markers. So i'm not sure
>> it'll be good idea to stick to squares.
>>
>> P.S. From UI point of view, search are could be rectangular, just
>> "missing" areas could be filled with black when it's passing to libmv which
>> would probably be optimized for squares.
>>
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>> With best regards, Sergey I. Sharybin
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