Hi all
I don't really know where to post this. I recently browsed the market for a "panorama" type of application like many phones come out with standard. I couldn't find anything but it got me thinking that it would be awesome if a camera app could "stitch" together photographs using the angular co-ordinates provided by the accelerometer (at least relative co-ordinates between successive photographs). This would allow "panorama" like photographs to be stitched together on the horizontal as well as the vertical axes.
Do you think this will be possible? (considering the phones processing power etc.)
I know the some camera apps record the [X,Y,(Z)] coordinates from the GPS for geo-tagging, but can the accelerometer's angular co-ordinates also be recorded on the photo e.g. [rho,theta, phi]?
I would like to hear your comments
leonpierresusan said:
Hi all
I don't really know where to post this. I recently browsed the market for a "panorama" type of application like many phones come out with standard. I couldn't find anything but it got me thinking that it would be awesome if a camera app could "stitch" together photographs using the angular co-ordinates provided by the accelerometer (at least relative co-ordinates between successive photographs). This would allow "panorama" like photographs to be stitched together on the horizontal as well as the vertical axes.
Do you think this will be possible? (considering the phones processing power etc.)
I know the some camera apps record the [X,Y,(Z)] coordinates from the GPS for geo-tagging, but can the accelerometer's angular co-ordinates also be recorded on the photo e.g. [rho,theta, phi]?
I would like to hear your comments
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this goes in the apps section... preferably in the "request an app" thread or a new thread to get noticed, but i doubt anyone would develop this anytime soon.
Not sure if this is worse the effort... there is a (or several) quite good programs around that will stitch your randomly-dropped-in-a-folder together (on you PC) which works nice and smooth. (photostitcher for example)
I don't know what all the discouragement is about. My wife's phone (Motorola Zine) does this without an accelerometer and a processor that is anemic in comparison to the G1. I think it absolutely could be done on the G1, or more generically Android. Getting someone to develop it is another question.
Street View
I guess you got this idea while seeing the Street View.
I had the same thought of acctualy integrating it with a map program like the HTC Footprints where I can make my own street view photo of places i like and want to share with frnds....
If this is possible we would help google get more street views and also let frnds and family experience what you can see where u r standing....
Would just love to have an app like tht
We should look at doing things on the mobile.... on the go....
Start asking your questions in the right sub-forum (Q&A) (Theme) or even in (General), or simply search.......Final result can or will be issuing a ban for you up too 3 days or more.
Thanks
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Hey All,
This Has been mentioned before, and gained moderate insterest. but, it's been a while, and i thought I'd bring it up again.
I am searching for a Mod/app that would allow me to manually focus my camera.
Not autofocus, and not 'tap to focus' but a true manual focus.
with cameras advancing these days, it becomes more accaptable to take quality fotos with your phone. And a manual focus option will allow one to control even more thier images.
my goal was to bring more depth of field into my fotos, but time and time again, i found it focusing on the wrong objcts. for example, rain on a window, it would focus on what was behond the window...
If theres anything out there already for my HD2 android or winMo, let me know.
Otherwise, leave your opinions and maybe someone more talented than I can write this up!
Thanks guys, and take it easy.
Today I want recommend a new app called "X camera",it's a magic trick tools, it can make “spirit photos”,.To add horrible pictures on your photos , let people make the mistake of thinking clap a hidden reality of ghost, so as to reach the effect of spreading and cruel; Also can add in body tattoo design, let the pictures of you, seems that quite cool enough！
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Is this an advertise?! Reported.
Hello developers,
I am a surgeon, and i need a camera application that detects edges automatically and crops the photo then give me basic tools for editing, like if i take a photo of a radiograph projected against an iluminator, camera app should automatically detect the edges of radiograph and crop it. it will save a lot of my time which i can spend on patient care. waiting for your suggestions and answers.
thanking you all in anticipation
Have you tried Google PhotoScan?
I never used it with XRays but I assume the app will understand it as a black and white photo.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.photos.scanner
thanks rmrbpt. i will try this application
This one is by Microsoft and works very well for document scanning: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.office.officelens&hl=en
I can't believe that making a photosphere in this day and age is impossible on the S22 Ultra.
I've not been able to create one with any software so far that I've tried. Google Street view for instance is useless because it doesn't have the ability to figure out the focal length of the lens so the stitching is a complete mess.
Does anyone know of a solution? Or am I wasting my time.
If not does anyone know of an assist app that will provide the guides (like) Google street view but save the individual pictures so I can use stitching on the PC?
louiscar said:
I can't believe that making a photosphere in this day and age is impossible on the S22 Ultra.
I've not been able to create one with any software so far that I've tried. Google Street view for instance is useless because it doesn't have the ability to figure out the focal length of the lens so the stitching is a complete mess.
Does anyone know of a solution? Or am I wasting my time.
If not does anyone know of an assist app that will provide the guides (like) Google street view but save the individual pictures so I can use stitching on the PC?
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Samsung used to have a camera plugin that allowed you to capture several images and stich them together. I could do it on my S8+ and Note 8. It was a little clunky, but it produced decent results.
Samsung stopped supporting it after the Note/S 9 series because I couldn't do it on my Note 10+. It wasn't a widely used feature.
Here are some PC and Mac apps that can do 3D image stitching. Not all are free.
Best Photo Stitching Software for Making Panoramas (2023)
An updated roundup of some of the best photo stitching apps for making panoramas, from free and simple to paid and powerful.
havecamerawilltravel.com
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Samsung used to have a camera plugin that allowed you to capture several images and stich them together. I could do it on my S8+ and Note 8. It was a little clunky, but it produced decent results.
Samsung stopped supporting it after the Note/S 9 series because I couldn't do it on my Note 10+. It wasn't a widely used feature.
Here are some PC and Mac apps that can do 3D image stitching. Not all are free.
Best Photo Stitching Software for Making Panoramas (2023)
An updated roundup of some of the best photo stitching apps for making panoramas, from free and simple to paid and powerful.
havecamerawilltravel.com
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Hi Gernerttl,
Thanks for your reply.
Yes I had this feature on my Note 4 which did deal with spherical panoramas (or photospheres ) and it did a great job.
As I say the problem with apps that do this now fail on some smartphones due to the focal length of the lenses and the ineptitude of the software in failing to find out what that fl is.
So whilst Google and other software are good at guiding you in covering the whole sphere the stitching is poor and sadly they are so basic that they don't make the separate photos available so you can export them.
The link you gave is for stitching software and that isn't the problem for me.
Ideally I'd like to find software that would work on the phone but if not I'd like to find software that would provide the guiding process of covering the sphere and save the separate tiles so I can then put them into the stitching software.
louiscar said:
Hi Gernerttl,
Thanks for your reply.
Yes I had this feature on my Note 4 which did deal with spherical panoramas (or photospheres ) and it did a great job.
As I say the problem with apps that do this now fail on some smartphones due to the focal length of the lenses and the ineptitude of the software in failing to find out what that fl is.
So whilst Google and other software are good at guiding you in covering the whole sphere the stitching is poor and sadly they are so basic that they don't make the separate photos available so you can export them.
The link you gave is for stitching software and that isn't the problem for me.
Ideally I'd like to find software that would work on the phone but if not I'd like to find software that would provide the guiding process of covering the sphere and save the separate tiles so I can then put them into the stitching software.
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Here is what I found. Have you tried any of these?
The best 360-degree camera apps for iOS and Android | Digital Trends
A 360-degree photo lets you observe a scene from a single point of view. We show you the best 360-degree camera apps for iOS and Android.
www.digitaltrends.com
gernerttl said:
Here is what I found. Have you tried any of these?
The best 360-degree camera apps for iOS and Android | Digital Trends
A 360-degree photo lets you observe a scene from a single point of view. We show you the best 360-degree camera apps for iOS and Android.
www.digitaltrends.com
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Yes I was working off that list actually as searches are so limited this is about the only thing that comes up.
Google view and one of the others proved exactly the same - Google obviously implemented that companies version into their street view.
One is for IOS only and I have not tried (but will) the last two even though they appear to have less regard for settings. I'll look at some of the Android stitchers too in case some offer the assist to take the photos. Most expect you to already have taken them with adequate overlaps but as you can imagine doing a whole sphere and making sure you are tracking what you have covered so far is a pain.
Thanks for the help I will try the offerings here but unless they photosphere offerings allow you to change camera lens FL they will assume a standard lens and fail. I'm surprised developers did not think of this as it's a complex process and I would have thought it'd have been essential.
You're welcome. I'm not sure it'll get fixed anytime soon. Not until OEMs figure out how to make a camera module that can implement an optical zoom with ultra-wide to super-telephoto focal lengths using one lens.
Hehe, well finally I've worked my way through all the pathetic offerings. All the apps are kiddy type apps which have no complexity whatsoever, most just do circular panos and the stitchers were even worse refusing to deal with anything but circular panos.
Sadly disappointing.
I think the only solution is to get a 360 standalone camera, these do video which I'm not interested in, so expensive and the quality isn't up to the camera on the S22 Ultra. [sigh 2023 - that's what we get - LOL)
Gcam has a photosphere plug in, I've just tried it seems ok, but maybe you've already tried?
alienex said:
Gcam has a photosphere plug in, I've just tried it seems ok, but maybe you've already tried?
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No, I had a link to a table of models and versions (somewhere) and when I checked there wasn't a gcam version for the S22 range.
Can you tell me which one you installed?
My version is also with Exynos chip if that matters.
Not sure if I can link it but Google gcam s22 ultra and its the getdroidtips link but I've just checked and I'm using snapdragon model.
OK, thanks
You can capture (for now) 360° photos with Street View app from Google.
Salkrikaltor said:
You can capture (for now) 360° photos with Street View app from Google.
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As per my first post. Done that - it fails to stitch properly.
Unfortunately 360 image capture has, for the most part, gone back to being a niche genre. The Samsung 360 camera plugin worked pretty well. Then Samsung dropped support for it when it decided to market and produce a 360 camera. Unfortunately, Samsung's foray into producing 360 image capture didn't last that long. Because the market is small, it was already saturated with devices made by Ricoh, Go Pro, Insta360, etc.
GCAM :
MGC_8.1.101_A9_GV1zfix_ruler.apk
Has a working photosphere on exynos S22ultra
https://1-dontsharethislink.celsoazevedo.com/file/filesc/MGC_8.1.101_A9_GV1zfix_ruler.apk
brouwerchris said:
GCAM :
MGC_8.1.101_A9_GV1zfix_ruler.apk
Has a working photosphere on exynos S22ultra
https://1-dontsharethislink.celsoazevedo.com/file/filesc/MGC_8.1.101_A9_GV1zfix_ruler.apk
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Thank you . Will give that a try.
I actually tried Google view outside and it failed on top and bottom stitching unlike when I tried it indoors where it failed to stitch almost everything.
Hopefully this will be better.!!
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Unfortunately 360 image capture has, for the most part, gone back to being a niche genre. The Samsung 360 camera plugin worked pretty well. Then Samsung dropped support for it when it decided to market and produce a 360 camera. Unfortunately, Samsung's foray into producing 360 image capture didn't last that long. Because the market is small, it was already saturated with devices made by Ricoh, Go Pro, Insta360, etc.
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Yeah, I recently got fired up because I bought a DJI mini 3 pro and the spherical panos on that are superb.
Got to thinking about them again and having access to panos on the ground.
Which makes me also wonder about the viewer.
Gallery on my S23 works fine if the meta shows a pano. I get a 360 photo button when it's recognised and it will display with several options.
I sent this to my friend and he has the S20 and his Gallery doesn't seem to support pano viewing at all.
Found that strange since I had the viewer on my Note 4 many years ago and the S20 isn't very old at all.
Oh well.