Keir Meirle shows off an early iteration of the new Ceres-Based planar tracker already available in Blender’s Tomato Branch, but coming to Blender in the 2.63 release. The Blender Planar Tracker is part of the Mango Open Source Movie Project and is based on the ceres-solver Nonlinear Least Squares Minimizer. Keir Meirle notes that this planar tracking is not as sophisticated as some of the other planar tracker packages, but give it time.
Keir Meirle writes: A short demonstration of the planar tracking capabilities coming to Blender in the 2.64 release. This is already available in the Tomato branch. The tracker uses Ceres (http://code.google.com/p/ceres-solver) for the nonlinear least squares solving. The code is intended for upstream libmv but isn’t yet ported there. I flew to Amsterdam the other week to hang out at the Blender institute writing some code and maybe get a second or two of screen time. We decided that one of the most useful features I could add for Mango was planar tracking. Over the last week, this is what I wrote. The video below shows the new Ceres-based planar tracker. This is on the Tomato branch and is not ready for trunk yet. Note: this planar tracking is not as sophisticated as some of the other planar tracker packages, but give it time. Special thanks to Sergey for integrating Ceres into Blender’s build and fixing some UI issues.
