Jesse and I met up with Ichi Hirota yesterday to get a demo of his fully functional plug-in for rapid bracketing shooting and post processing of the dual fisheye images to allow stitching. We also learned that interested parties can license the stitching library from Ichi.
Stitching Images in Post-Production
The stitching quality in post-production is comparable to the quality of the Ricoh images. There are three options for stitching the dual-fisheye images for post-production:
- mobile app (shown below)
- inside the THETA V (tested, but not available to the public)
- custom options such as desktop or server stitching (need to discuss with Ichi)
Estimating Lens Distortion Information
With Ichi’s application, each camera needs to be configured one time and the lens distortion estimates need to be saved to a file. The configuration takes about 30 seconds per camera. A person needs to click on three sets of points. In the future, this can be saved to a plug-in.
Stitching Results
Dual-fisheye Edge
Code Snippet
Sample Image
Image details
