Accept 180-degree and 360-degree spherical images as input
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I found elsewhere on the forum some discussions about using 360-degree images as input, but no feature request yet. So here it is. Please provide support for 180-degree spherical and 360-degree spherical and equirectangular images. I have a Samsung Gear 360 camera and taking images with it is really easy. I want to just walk through a street with the camera in the air on interval image capture mode and input the results straight into RC. Combine these with aerial images from a drone and voila. Here an example image from the Samsung.
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I found a tool to concert the equirectangular images into cubemaps. Below an example, almost 2k x 2k. Should be enough for reconstruction. But... since these cube images don't have any overlap, RC doesn't handle them well. From each 360 image, more than 6 images should be generated, with 60% overlap with their neighbors. That's why this feature should be built into RC. -
Walking/cycling/driving through a street with a 360 camera set at regular 1-sec interval capture rate is not very complex or time consuming. Exploding these 360 images into multiple overlapping smaller-FoV images lets RC make alignments between the different capture points, and also with any drone-created images created at a higher flight level from a regular grid pattern. My drone can create a 360 image automatically by taking 25 overlapping images. I used these base images (and not the 360 image) as input for a RC model, combining these with the images generated from the drone from a higher height, created using a regular flight pattern. RC aligned these lower-height 360 images and the higher grid-based images automatically, and the result was a more detailed 3D model than I had without the lower-level 360 images.
You could achieve a similar alignment if you create 360-degrees images from ground level and explode these into 25 overlapping non-360 images (i.e. the reverse process of what my drone does).
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I absolutely agree with Pjotr, that implementation of spherical images processing in RC would be great. Our company would also like to combine drone images with 360° images taken on the street. Honestly, we are waiting with buying the RC software untill this feature will be included. The RC team promises that they will incorporate such tool I guess already second year but I still do not see any progress.
Please, vote for this Feature Request in the top right of this page to maximally highlight the demand for this tool.
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Would also love such a feature as then I could use the 360 images from our Matterport cameras to produce - hopefully - a higher quality 3D model together with their OBJ / POINTCLOUD export.
Matterport has lately introduced 360 pano to 3D in their cloud also for one shot 360 cams.@Huw Thomas - whare are you based in the netherlands? I am often in The Hague.
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@mori - I am in Breda, South of The Hague / Rotterdam. Email me if you want a chat....
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