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[edit] Trackers and Matchmovers

History of motion tracking pretty amazing, and useful, describes the barriers overcame and the state of the art in motion tracking up to 2004.

http://www.fxguide.com/article209.html http://www.fxguide.com/article212.html

Voodoo Tracker - not open source but currently free. http://www.digilab.uni-hannover.de/docs/manual.html#usage

Science D Visions 3D equalizer http://www.sci-d-vis.com/ http://www.3dequalizer.com/

bojou http://www.2d3.com/jsp/index.jsp

realviz http://www.realviz.com/

SynthEyes http://www.ssontech.com/mmove.htm

Imagica Mamoe (apparently the source code was available at one time, but haven't been able to track it down...)

[edit] Possible matchmoving basis code

RAVL - LGPL library http://ravl.sourceforge.net/

Tina LGPL http://www.tina-vision.net/ http://developer.tina-vision.net/osmia/docs/D1.1-review.pdf

OpenCV - open source but not sure if GPL compatible? http://www.intel.com/technology/computing/opencv/coding_style/license.htm

Bazar and Garfield - feature point and match move solving including camera solving( based off opencv) It is written and distributed at CVLab, EPFL -- http://cvlab.epfl.ch/ http://cvlab.epfl.ch/software/bazar/html/index.html

History of match mov software http://www.fxguide.com/article209.html&mode=nested

Listing of matchmoving software http://www.matchmove.com/matchmoveMain.html

Wow massive list of all sorts of useful links including matchmovers http://www.cgtantra.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=547&get=last

Camera Trajectory Reconstruction & Scene Recovery For Live Action And Computer Graphics Imagery

A Versatile Camera Calibration Technique for High-Accuracy 3D Machine Vision Metrology Using Off-the-Shelf TV Cameras and Lenses http://www.me.gatech.edu/me6406/camera-calbration_Tsai.pdf

Tsai’s camera calibration method revisited http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/bkph/papers/tsaiexplain.pdf

A flexible new technique for camera calibration http://www.ics.uci.edu/~msainz/ics280/papers/zhang98flexible.pdf

Flexible camera calibration by viewing a plane from unknown orientations http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~indre399/papers/zhang-calibration99.pdf

Vision-Based Camera Motion Recovery for Augmented Reality http://www.ics.forth.gr/cvrl/publications/conferences/2004_CGI2004_camera_tracking.pdf

2003.TR324.3D_Camera_Matchmoving_Using_Plane_Tracking.pdf ftp://ftp.ics.forth.gr/tech-reports/2003/2003.TR324.3D_Camera_Matchmoving_Using_Plane_Tracking.pdf

A Four-step Camera Calibration Procedure with Implicit Image Correction http://w3.impa.br/~pcezar/3dp/original/heikkila97.pdf

On Plane-Based Camera Calibration: A General Algorithm, Singularities, Applications http://w3.impa.br/~pcezar/3dp/original/CVL_html/appPage/calib_doc/sturm99.pdf

Calibration-Free Augmented Reality http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~jag/papers/predDisplay/calibration-free-augmented-reality.pdf

Geometric Camera Calibration Using Circular Control Points http://19263.gel.ulaval.ca/references/heikkila2000PAMI.pdf

A Camera Calibration Method using Concentric Circles for Vision Applications http://rcv.kaist.ac.kr/publication/file/foreign_conference/60_JunSikKim_ACCV2002.pdf

Camera Self-Calibration for the ARToolKit

[edit] Keyers

SIOX (GPL compatible, used in Gimp) http://www.siox.org/