Time seems to flyby at the moment, I’ve been swamped on some fantastic projects over the last few weeks with more booked this year and next, so I managed to squeeze in some time to run some 4D tests which I have been meaning to do since the summer.
Using 10 DSLR’s recording Synchronized footage, the idea is to process exported frames in Agisoft with the help from Alexey Pasumansky. Alexey is developing a script to batch process the data, to then stream back in Softimage with colour information to track with.
The only draw back with using DSLR’s is the awful built in compression! it really affects 3D Stereo Extraction but I have some other Cameras on order to overcome this issue. For now the DSLR’s are pretty good. It means anyone can build a 4D Capture array for under £5k, unlike most commercial systems that can vary from £50k to £150k.
4D Mesh Data Processed in Agisoft Photoscan
Alexey kindly processed some of the data in Agisoft Photoscan Pro, we wanted to test the pipeline in Agisoft to prove the 4D system could work and I think the results are pretty good. Unlike most commercial 4D Systems because of the multi camera array and the way the data is processed you get very little stretching or seaming, it’s far more “Volumetric”
8GB’s of data streamed in Softimage using Thiago Costa’s OBJ Sequencer with some extra ICE and Softimage trickery (best viewed at 720p)
Examples of me, trying to act tough ala Matrix style (performance is inspired by the research of George Borshukov for the Matrix films in 2003)
AGisoft “Frame-00124″ Test:
Synchronized Video Streams:
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Yes I know of Photofly or whatever it is called now. Not a big fan, it doesn’t work as well with my Camera array as Agisoft does, it produces some weird circular clipping and blobbing effects. I also don’t like the idea of uploading my personal data to the cloud and the software is pretty closed off at the moment. If they can improve those thing and allow people to process offline I might look into it further.
lukas December 6, 2011
hello. im following this blog for quite a while and im stunned, i love the latest agisoft scans. they came out great. did you also tried the free app called 123D catch ? formerly called project photofly ?
i personally really like it. it does really nice and accurate results, its free and pretty quick to process (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=43&t=1019262)