Modeling images from a 360 degree camera
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Hi there (first post go easy on me).
I'm looking to model static content (like a room in a house) from a series of 360 degree images.
Will RealityCapture be able to model accurately from them? Or is there some way to turn the 360 degree images into a form that RealityCapture will support?
Thanks,
Ryan
I'm looking to model static content (like a room in a house) from a series of 360 degree images.
Will RealityCapture be able to model accurately from them? Or is there some way to turn the 360 degree images into a form that RealityCapture will support?
Thanks,
Ryan
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In the meantime, I've had some great success breaking apart the equi-rectangular image into 6 flat images (think six sides of a cube).
I've used a tool that comes with 3DF Zephr Lite (trial version). It's in the Utilities > Images > Decompose equirectangular panoramas menu.
Hope this helps some of you until Reality Capture has some tools of it's own to handle these images.
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This feature would be very helpful.
I'm currently generating a model from 360 video footage captured by a GoPro Odyssey camera with this workflow:
1. Convert stereo video footage to mono
2. Convert equirectangular footage to cube map
3. Export each face of the cube map as a separate image sequence
4. Generate model with RC using cube map faces.
It'd be great if RC could directly process the equirectangular images. -
Great that they are adding the feature for picking up scenes via video!
I have a 7x Heroes rig that could come in handy for some shoots in weird scenarios, but since I'm not extracting my images from video I just set each camera to take a pic every few seconds. Only done it a few times in testing, but good for a quick capture of tree lines strung from some strong fish line, or on a 15 dollar dolly/skateboard to grab things like church pews if constrained.
I'm not doing 360 video anymore, so that set-up is more of a re-purpose, I'd be curious as to the results of a scene from 360 video, what with invariable seems you'll have to some degree. (Though brilliant for cube-map usage)
Janine, how is the GoPro Odyssey? How's the stitching? Does it require a lot of finesse like the original 360Heroes rigs? -
So, I'm converting the source 360 images into 6 flat images and it is not really working.
Should I instruct Reality Capture in any specific way, so it understands that those images are related? I'm getting a lot of small pieces and linking in via Control Points would be a nightmare.
Please help,
Thanks! :) -
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Excuse inexpert question - how can photogrammetry use pics from a single 360o scan position? I thought it all worked by parallax from multiple positions, unlike laser-point-cloud which records direction-plus-distance?
I do understand that part of RC's speed is because it converts the data into direction-plus-distance but it must convert that from initial parallax data? -
Pleased to find my understanding wasn't wrong.
So it's a bit misleadsing when in latest Jul/Aug 2017 AECMagazine 'Leica BLK360 preview' it says
"once the button is pressed 3mins later you have a ful 3D scan of the room, in a combined laser, photogrammetry and heat-mapped model that is ready to be used instently in Adesk Recap Pro from a partnered iPad"Jonathan_Tanant wrote:
Does that mean just as many positions as if single conventional photos were taken, with same overlap guidelines etc?You need multiple 360° images taken from several positions -
Hello everyone,
thanks a lot for your interest in this feature. We are aware that it is demanded and we are working on it. However, the time of implementation is not known yet. Once the feature is released, we will inform you in the release notes for sure. Thank you for your understanding.
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