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3d scene reconstruction from multiple video clips

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I seen videos where events like car crashes are filmed from multiple video sources of different qualities and smartphones.

What would be nice, is if you could have something like a "video photosynth", where you can get multiple videos and work out where it is in visual space of a scene.

If you can work out where it is in visual space, perhaps you can also work out the exact timing of each video clip.

So imagine being able to see a grey dot cloud representing the 3d structure of immobile objects in the scene (like walls), and each video clip being represented by a flashlight that shows an animated point cloud of the scene at the time.

This might help with visualizing a filmed crime scene perhaps. Especially if you can jump to any point in the timeline.

mofosyne, Sep 29 2014

http://xkcd.com/1425/ Simple does not equal easy. [MechE, Sep 29 2014]

123D Catch http://www.123dapp.com/catch
Doesn't take video input (yet), but that's just because video isn't typically high-def enough (yet). [Freefall, Sep 29 2014]

Hyperlapse http://research.mic...rojects/hyperlapse/
Smoothed video from a moving camera - goes WAY beyond traditional frame-transformation image stabilization. [Freefall, Sep 29 2014]

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       I don't know if I would call it "reconstruction". But I do suspect that in the not-distant future something like this will become Standard Operating Procedure.
Vernon, Sep 29 2014
  

       well, I won't be surprised if in the not-too distant future, the latest episode of CSI has the person asking to 'enhance' a pixel cloud to absurdity.
mofosyne, Sep 29 2014
  

       There's a story, possibly apocryphal, that back when the capabilities for machine vision were first being developed, a professor assigned a project in that regard to a couple of Grad Students, blithely assuming that they would be able to work out identifying objects in about two months.   

       60 years later, we're still working on it.   

       Reconstructing 3d from two known cameras (optics and position) is relatively easy. Reconstructing it from multiple known reference points/objects in each field of view, somewhat harder, but still feasible. Reconstructing it by identifying different aspects of different random objects from different, unknown, and variable (except in the case of fixed security cameras) viewpoints is rather difficult. I'm not even going to begin to claim it's impossible, and I do think we'll get there someday, but I'm not expecting it tomorrow.
MechE, Sep 29 2014
  

       Link - 123D catch   

       Autodesk 123D catch builds point clouds from multiple images from a generic camera, determining the lens properties on the fly.   

       Link - Hyperlapse   

       Microsoft is already developing tools to take a video and generate a new video output along a smoothed path, based on on-the-fly generation of a point cloud and representative geometry, and mapping the video onto that geometry.   

       Check out the videos of the Hyperlapse generation process, showing the entire generated scene along with what is visible from the camera at each frame.
Freefall, Sep 29 2014
  


 

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