Re: Long, long, and then some panoramas

["Brian D. Jones" <brian.jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have worked on a technique for doing long orthographic images with a
video camera. See
http://www.oip.gatech.edu/imtc/html/othographic_mapper.html  for more
information.  

We presented this technique at Siggraph '97 and continued to take it a
little further until funding ran out.  The pages were not updated after our
last effort, so some improvements have been made.  We were using a method
similar to the slit camera, except taking the center chunk of video and
using it to eliminate motion in the vertical direction (due to road bumps).
 We were aiming at extracting additional information from the video to fill
in behind obstructed objects and create a multi-plane (different depths)
image. 


Another video application that is currently available is Videobrush -
http://www.videobrush.com/

Brian Jones




At 07:46 AM 7/27/99 -0400, you wrote:
>I have been interested in this subject for a while.
>
>Is perhaps the best way to do this with a high-end digital video camera?
>
>If do you it using a slit-camera, and transport the film whole the camera is 
>moving, I think there is no regular camera that can hold enoiugh film for a 
>really long stretch.
>
>Thus, I'ld like to know more too of how it is done. How easy it is to make a 
>camera yourself, etc. etc.
>
>This is very interesting stuff! Can also be applied indoors, even on macro 
>levels!
>The Seitz Super camera can e.g. do a model train from very closeby.
>
>. 



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