[Soc-2013-dev] Weekly Report #1 Motion Tracking

[Keir Mierle]

Great writeup Joseph! Let me know if you run into any roadblocks or have
questions about how stuff works. I'm happy to review early or non-working
code; just stick it in a codereview.appspot.com review.


On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Joseph Mansfield <sftrabbit at gmail.com>wrote:

> =This week=
>
> On the first day, I was a little unsure of where I was heading yet, so I
> spent the day getting up to speed with recent mailings, started making
> notes, bookmarking useful information, etc. Just admin work. I also synced
> my branch with the trunk - my very first commit. Spoke with Keir in the
> evening. We agreed that it'd be nice to tackle the work in small chunks
> rather than one big commit at the end. That's better for me as I can
> gradually get used to everything.
>
> Then I got my first task: add constraints to the focal length for bundle
> adjustment. The user should be able to specify minimum and maximum
> constraints on the camera focal length and the bundle adjuster will only
> optimize within this range. This requires changes to the UI, libmv, and
> interfacing with Ceres. Of course, to begin this, I had to learn a lot
> about the Blender architecture. So for two or so days I was reading through
> the source and learnt about a number of things, including: DNA, RNA, python
> UI, operators, notifiers, spaces, the window manager, jobs, etc. Making
> notes, diagrams, and code traces helped a lot. :)
>
> The plan was to try and get it done for today, but unfortunately some
> things cropped up so I haven't had enough time. I'll work on it some more
> over the weekend. It's been very fun.
>
> =Next week=
>
> This weekend I'm going to be writing something similar to this report on
> my GSoC wiki page (with a little extra detail) and writing up my schedule.
> I'll also get some more of the first task done so it'll hopefully be ready
> for code review on Monday or Tuesday.
>
> Once that is done, I'll talk with Keir more about where to head next and
> how it'll lead towards my main targets.
>
> =Questions=
>
> No questions at the moment that I haven't already asked. :)
>
>
> Joseph Mansfield
>
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