Geometrical Artifacts in Video

[smdr2670]

Hi, in order to get an artifact-free video from my recoreded footage I have a few questions:

We shot a scene where a person is walking towards and around the camera
at a distance between 1 - 1.5 meters. At some of those frames, the person
start to disappear partly (looks like some image colums of the person disappears)
or heavy distortions on the head (minimum distace to cameras) of the person occurs.

How does the minimum distance of an object to the ODS system affects the stitching?
Is it the optical flow that fails because the objects are too near resulting in
great horizontal disparity? Have you observed something similar?

Also, in the rendering pipeline, when I am stacking the optical flow fields horizontally
and visualize them with e.g. color-coding of middlebury or normalized
vertical disparity, it is clearly visible that image consists of 14 vertical
stripes.

Should the visualized optical flows fields stacked together look consistent?

[aparrapo]

Hi @smdr2670. Optical flow becomes increasingly more difficult the closer you get to the camera rig, exactly for the reason you mention. We have success with objects at > 8ft, and we start having issues closer (depends on the type of object and movement).

Regarding the optical flow visualization, if you can attach a screenshot I can try to make sense of it :)

[smdr2670]

Hi @aparrapo, sure.

The first image visualizes the optical flow using the color coding of middlebury, i.e.

The second image shows the horizontal disparity

Theoretically, the visualization should show spatial continuity right?