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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Thanks for the help!
SMBulls9 said:
Hi,
I am trying to develop an app, with little experience of WP7, on Visual Studio Ultimate 2010, in C#. The app I am trying to develop needs to be able to take your pulse using the flash of the camera to illuminate your finger and then detect the changes in brightness to calculate it. To do this, would I be better off recording a video for like ten seconds in the background (the UI will just be text that says place your finger over the lens) or would I need to use a while loop and have it take a picture like every 40 milliseconds then have will flip through the pictures and see how often a dark spot comes up or something? Any code examples or links would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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Well, I didn't caught the idea of the app you want to develop, but if I understood you right and you want to measure pulse by taking photos/videos of a finger, it looks like some kind of science fiction. Just imagine the accuracy needed for such calculations and how will you keep you finger still.
Talking about video: if I am not mistaken all the currently existing background agents are restricted to use Camera API, may be I'm a bit wrong here.
For learning C# for Windows Phone 7 it is good to begin from MSDN and bunch of code samples stored there or a book.
Best regards.
This is actually already being done on other smartphone platforms; hell, people are using smartphone sensors for all kinds of crazy things, including a number of medical applications.
Given that the highest pulse you're ever likely to encounter is about 240 BPM / 4Hz (250ms between beats), 40ms resolution seems more than needed. That said, that's only 25 FPS, while I believe the video camera shots at 30 FPS (33ms). However, taking pictures probably won't work so well because of the need to JPEG-compress the images after taking them (I think the camera API *always* does this, though I might be wrong). Using the video stream API seems like a much better idea.
You shouldn't need the background APIs at all; not sure why the guy above me talked about them. My understanding is that these apps just sample for a few seconds, enough to get an accurate reading.
You may get better info in the App Development sub-section of the WP7 D&H forum. That said, don't expect people to write your code for you, especially for something where there's a reasonable chance of it being a commercially viable Marketplace app. I suggest you start with MSDN, but reading the docs and looking at the examples. You can also go look up tutorials and example code online for using the video APIs.
Hey guys,
Hope this is the right place to post this. If not, please move it to the right section. Thx.
Just wanted to draw your attention on a small website for easy Photosphere viewing I created a few days ago:
PhotosphereViewer.net
What is PhotosphereViewer.net?
We provide a service to view one of Android's latest and most exciting features: Photospheres. Photospheres are 360° panoramic photographs which can be viewed interactively on your mobile phone, tablet, Google Plus and Google Maps, whereas the two last-mentioned ways of viewing Photospheres are only available if you upload your photos onto Google's servers.
Personally, I don't like to share everything with Google, especially in times of PRISM. That's one of several reasons why I built this website:
I wanted to be able to view Photospheres regardless of Google's services.
To view them anywhere at any time.
Even without an Android device.
To view other people's Photospheres without copying them on a mobile device.
And to give users running older Android versions the chance to view Photospheres as well.
How does it work?
This website is based on the amazing work of Joe "kennydude" Simpson, who developed a way to display Android Photospheres in your browser with ease. PhotosphereViewer.net is wrapped around his efforts, making it easy for everyone to enjoy fascinating Photospheres within a few seconds. All my thanks go to him, I just made it look a bit nicer and made it available for everyone within a few seconds.
Will my Photospheres be stored on your server?
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Is this a free service?
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How does it work?
Simply watch this video:
That's it, hope you'll ilke it.
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--jackennils
Well, I thought this may at least interest somebody.
jackennils said:
Well, I thought this may at least interest somebody.
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: Хорошо:
I tried it, I liked it! Simple, fast and Udabno, thank you! The site address will offer all my friends.
Thanks! I'm glad you like it.
Hey guys,
did some tweaking during the last weeks. Rendering should now look a bit better and should be a bit faster.
Also, some minor design changes and a new tutorial.
If you like it, please give it a +1. Thanks.
:good: I like this very much.
Thanks! Glad to hear that.
Hi guys!
Pixelcam is an app that allows you to apply awesome effects to your camera directly while filming or taking pictures.
I started working on this a long time ago and gave up a few times because the android Camera APIs are such a pain in the ass for developers (for me at-least).
The idea came from when I was testing out stuff in libgdx and found out about the things shaders could do in opengl.
I've been babysitting this project for too long. With the latest news from google and prisma, there is one thing left for me to do, just release it and handle the feedback like a man.
PixelCam is an app that applies effects to your camera, it allows you to record video/take pictures with opengl shaders applied directly to the output, so no post-processing is needed and the possibilities are truly endless (Or so I like to think)
I have been able to test on oneplus, samsung and huawei devices, so all crash and glitch reports are welcome, it's the only way I can fix issues and make this app better! Please give it to me raw & uncut.
The app is totally free and has no ads.
ps. the fact that it's the worst named app at this moment is just bad timing I should have released it much earlier
link to app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.marsvard.pixelcam
Thank you in advance
Mars Vardanyan
Sounds good
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Description
New generation camera application builded with a proper UI/UX and updated with some non-common features has Live-preview filters, live-photos and face recognition used to take captures.
Technical description
CameraX is a camera application builded over Camera 2 API. The application makes uses of all the features provided by the API based on the hardware of the device running it. It also manages all the preview system using OpenGL instead of the native way. Being able to implement real time filters(on next release ), selfie indicator and on-preview features. It also works on some modes with Scene Detection and Face Detection using the tools provided by Machine learning Firebase tool.
Hardware limitations
Is possible that your device will not support the application. if your device is not supported it means that the Camera 2 API is not fully supported by your manufacturer. Brands like Xiaomi, Huawei and Samsung who develop their own Firmware still using the old API 1 and works over it. On this case, I can't help providing a manual apk. The API itself requires a full implementation over it.
Features
- HD Camera: Up to 4K support for video and photo if your device supports it.
- Live Photos: See your pictures come to life on Google Photos.
- Photobooth: Take selfies with your friends only smiling to the camera.
- Manual Mode: Modify your ISO, time exposure, compensation and white balance for the best pictures.
- Record in Slow-motion in supported devices.
- Create amazing Time-lapses.
- Focus: Auto & Manual.
- Burst Mode: Capture infinite pictures with out burst mode.
- Support for RAW/DNG.
- Record in multiple FPS: Choose between 30 or 60FPS.
- Gesture Management: Use your volume keys to take pictures or control the zoom .
- Frontal Mirror: Add a mirrored effect to your frontal camera pictures.
- Grid: Take the best pictures with our Grid options.
Download APK:
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.camerax.camera
Feel free to leave any feedback, we are looking forward for updates and improvements on the application. Also, being a hardware related app makes it hard to test without a huge quantity of devices.
Thank you so much in advance!
Not supported by Galaxy a50 in PlayStore. Could you share an *.apk?
polomalkin said:
Not supported by Galaxy a50 in PlayStore. Could you share an *.apk?
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Hello @polomalkin
If your device is not supported it means that the Camera 2 API is not fully supported by your manufacturer. Brands like Xiaomi, Huawei and Samsung who develop their own Firmware still using the old API 1 and works over it. Even providing you an APK the application will not work properly. Thank you so much anyway! Will write this down on the description aswell
thanks!! can it compete somehow google camera in futute updates?
kos25k said:
thanks!! can it compete somehow google camera in futute updates?
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Hello @kos25k ! Yes, the idea is to compete with the actual Google Camera(the open one, not the one integrated on PIXEL devices). In the end right now apart of some really specific features. For now we want to close an stable version with all the features highlighted and then focus on more "Image processing" features, such as develop our own HDR/Nightshot etc.
Anyway, for now we are using the same API than google, and the actual application highlight a lot of the App store top applications. It lack the Manufacturer custom implementation of each in-device camera. But in the end is the cost of build an application available for tons of devices.
Any feedback or desired feature is totally welcome! Thank you so much!
nice!my inquiry always was, why noone camera apk on market has the most known spec, google hdr+! is this impossible to be implemented in a camera app?The difference is really great..
kos25k said:
nice!my inquiry always was, why noone camera apk on market has the most known spec, google hdr+! is this impossible to be implemented in a camera app?The difference is really great..
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More than do an HDR(HDR+), it's to do one that is fast enought to don't bother the user. You can easily create a HDR, Nightshot, or high processing quality images using OpenCV(FastCV on Android case), but these libraries takes seconds(10+) to process this images. Google does it using their own algorith with a huge native processing image team behind, that's why they don't need 2-3 cameras and they can do a Bokeh, HDR, nightshot and everything using a single 1, because their knowledge on that matter is amazing. Other manufacturers such as Samsung, Hauwei etc use their own system or third party libraries(from companies has Morpho).
So, in summary, yes, it's possible to do an hdr+, and we are working on it. But we want to launch something that will process under 3-4 seconds at least to give a good user experience.
Thank you so much for your feedback kos25k!
i wish the best bro! If you manage a similar hdr+ experience, i believe you will then have the 1st best custom camera app on android phones!especially if u can solve gcam phone models compatibility issues, then you will re-write the rules from scratch!!
Feature request
- manual folder selection
- one time adsfree payment
- nicer icons when switching between modes
Also
Empty .mp4 videos are created in my DCIM folder . What are them?
mijorus said:
Feature request
- manual folder selection
- one time adsfree payment
- nicer icons when switching between modes
Also
Empty .mp4 videos are created in my DCIM folder . What are them?
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Hello Mijorus,
first, thank you so much for the feedback and the request. I really though this thread was already dead.
- We are working on a folder selection feature already, it should come next month.
- Same goes with payments. We want to include the possibility for single payment to remove the ads. However, we want to finish cleaning the bugs and gathering all the feedback we are receiving recently before include the payments.
- What did you didnt like from the icons? They are too simple? We try to follow a Google Material looking with the icons, but maybe make something more fancy would be great. Any advice or idea would be great. We will take the feedback and let it know to our designer.
Thank you so much for the feedback, and feel free to send us more requests here or to [email protected]
PD: Regarding the .mp4 files you mean they are generated when you take photos with Live photos enabled. But they should be automatically deleted after add the metadata to the headers of the JPG images. We will give a look to check if these videos are not being properly deleted.
pepedin said:
Hello Mijorus,
first, thank you so much for the feedback and the request. I really though this thread was already dead.
- We are working on a folder selection feature already, it should come next month.
- Same goes with payments. We want to include the possibility for single payment to remove the ads. However, we want to finish cleaning the bugs and gathering all the feedback we are receiving recently before include the payments.
- What did you didnt like from the icons? They are too simple? We try to follow a Google Material looking with the icons, but maybe make something more fancy would be great. Any advice or idea would be great. We will take the feedback and let it know to our designer.
Thank you so much for the feedback, and feel free to send us more requests here or to [email protected]
PD: Regarding the .mp4 files you mean they are generated when you take photos with Live photos enabled. But they should be automatically deleted after add the metadata to the headers of the JPG images. We will give a look to check if these videos are not being properly deleted.
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Hi,
icons are a bit dated IMO, however that is not at all a priority, especially if you want to keep that look and feel.
Motion photos are disabled, but I see some .mp4 empty files (0 bytes) in the DCIM folder, they are scanned by my gallery app and spam the photo list with empty white files
mijorus said:
Hi,
icons are a bit dated IMO, however that is not at all a priority, especially if you want to keep that look and feel.
Motion photos are disabled, but I see some .mp4 empty files (0 bytes) in the DCIM folder, they are scanned by my gallery app and spam the photo list with empty white files
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Hello Mijorus,
The last release has already a payment option to remove ads forever. Also a fix was implemented to prevent that ghost .mp4 files to be generated. Regarding the folder picker, we will implement it on the next release.
Thank you so much, if you have any other doubt or request feel free to write a message here or send us an email to [email protected]
kos25k said:
i wish the best bro! If you manage a similar hdr+ experience, i believe you will then have the 1st best custom camera app on android phones!especially if u can solve gcam phone models compatibility issues, then you will re-write the rules from scratch!!
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Hello Kos!
I know that the post is a bit old, but just FYI we already have a base HDR and HDR+ implemented on the app. It doesn't have the quality of google camera (and its far from it), but we are working on it. Feel free to let us know any other request or suggestion.
Also, any review or Play Store punctuation really help us a lot, so if any user is happy with the application we will be really glad if you could leave us a comment!
Thank you so much
The issue with empty files being detected by gallery apps persists for me, I would suggest to move them in an hidden directory
Suggestion for hdr and bug report
1) phone Xperia x(f5122 camera is 23 MP) supports camera api 2 except Raw. The app doesn't let me click with full res (23 MP) but clicks botchy compressed 8MP which don't look good and are very small in size
2)suggestion for hdr+
So Ive used this app called hedge cam 2 and it has an option called reduced noise mode which takes several photos in burst (number can be selected) and averages them. The results are absolutely stunning. The images have no noise at all almost and in some cases better than gcam hdr+. Only problem is it takes too long to capture. So I've though of something.. There is another app called camera mx it has feature shoot the past.. If you can combine the above two we can get many images ready before you hit the shutter for hdr+ effect.
Just an idea ?!