[Soc-2016-dev] Weekly Report 2, Multiview reconstruction

[Tianwei Shen]

Hi everyone,

This is report of week 2 for my multi-view reconstruction project. You can also view this report at blender wiki: 
https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Tianwei37/Report_%26_Blog/Week_2

What I did:
- organize correspondence: add several utility functions and data structures. A complete correspondence data structure is still in development, until I figure out what’s needed in the back end.
- add 'solve multi-view' operator and implement it. I separate the function of ‘solve single camera’ and ‘solve multi-camera’ for now. This allows me to do the multi-view reconstruction code without interfering the original solve-camera code. After I finish this function. I will integrate the multi-view reconstruction with the single-view reconstruction. 
- watch TrackMatchBlend and get a full picture of the tracking system. (I thought TrackMatchBlend is an episode and introduction, while it is actually a series of videos, great tutorials!)

What I will do next week:
- I thought I could finish a basic multi-view reconstruction operator this week. But it turned out that it involves a great deal of changes to the original codebase. So I will continue the work of multi-view reconstruction.
- look into the UI side and consider making a separate mode for specifying correspondences. 


Thanks,
Tianwei