Week 11

Harry Potter - The Order of The Phoenix

00 09 44 - 00 09 50 Big Ben
01 13 26 - 01 13 38 Castle
01 33 19 - 01 33 22 Castle
01 58 51 - 01 59 00 Castle
02 03 01 - 02 03 06 Castle

National Treasures 2

00 21 13 - 00 21 42 - Arch de Triumph/ Eiffel Tower/ Statue of Liberty
002504 - 002509 - Big Ben
002528-002546 Statue of Liberty
002557-002559 Buckingham Palace
003538-003543 Buckingham Palace
003734-003735 Buckingham Palace

005556-005604 White House
012120-012132 Mount Rushmore
012326-012334 Mount Rushmore

Week 10

Draft Report Layout
-Contents Page
-Text Page
-2 alternate image styled pages (mid chapter and end chapter)


Scanning through the movies has been very time consuming, with no guarantee of good footage so i began to explore alternatives.

Moving on from the idea of gathering all the footage from film, i began looking for youtube videos (HD) and aerial shots on stock footage sites like https://www.videoblocks.com

this is some footage captured of the Statue of Liberty



http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=3ad9b12b-70da-49b2-8730-82d09d20f329

Point Cloud of the Statue of Liberty in MeshLab






Look at:
1. Men in Black Guggenheim (The first scene featuring Will Smith chasing down an alien starts near Grand Central Station, and then he follows the alien up into the white spiral of the Guggenheim Museum. )
2. Statue of Liberty - Will Smith helps deliver a baby alien squid, is actually Liberty Park in Jersey City, opposite the Statue of Liberty.
3. The Lincoln Memorial and National Mall. (Forrest Gump is another such movie which makes good use of landmarks in the Carolinas, Washington DC and Los Angeles as part of the plot. The Lincoln Memorial and the National Mall are famous attractions in Washington DC which have been featured in many movies, including Mr Smith Goes to Washington, National Treasure and Wedding Crashers.Los Angeles landmarks in Forrest Gump include the Santa Monica Pier, Grauman's Chinese Theater and the historic Ambassador Hotel which was demolished in 2006)
4. Dark Knight (Chicago)
5. Vertigo (San Francisco)
6. When Harry Met Sally (New York)
7. Empire State Building which, according to IMDB, has starred in 77 movies, 4 television shows, 3 video games and 8 short films. Empire State Building played pivotal roles include both the 1933 and latest versions of King Kong, An Affair to remember, and Sleepless in Seattle.

http://peeling.hubpages.com/hub/Landmarks-Featured-in-Famous-Movies


Britain's most famous spy, James Bond, generally spends little time in London, other than to receive his orders from his boss 'M'. However, some of the films do feature locations in the city. These include On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) in which George Lazenby as Bond visits the College of Arms and For Your Eyes Only (1981), in which Roger Moore experiences a hair-raising helicopter flight over the Docklands area. In the more recent Pierce Brosnan films, the Secret Service's headquarters are identified as being the new MI6 building on the River Thames at Vauxhall. The 1999 film The World Is Not Enough opens with an extended boat chase from the MI6 building down the river to the Millennium Dome, while in Die Another Day (2002) Bond visits a secret base in a disused Underground station, and makes a rare trip to his club Blades. The 1967 version of Casino Royale makes extensive use of London locations, including 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, Trafalgar Square (with Nelson's Column replaced by a flying saucer) as well as the Changing of the Guard outside Buckingham Palace.


Met with Jeremy on Wednesday.
Notes:
talk to Josh about reducing the focus to one landmark on film purely because of the time factor spent scrubbing through films at 8X and then only extracting one still image of a landmark, or a blurry image.
Use a combination of film and stock to produce synth
Develop one landmark to the point of 3D printing (export as .stl)

Week 9

List of films set in Sydney

Looking for Alabrandi
Mission Impossible II
Our Lips are Sealed
Lantana
Dirty Deeds
Garage Days
Finding Nemo
Godzilla: Final Wars
Strictly Ballroom
The Combination


Using XiliSoft to rip DVD footage

MI:II (opera house)
00:00:00 - 00:30:00
34:20:00 - 36:20:00
01:58:40:00 - 01:58:50:00

scenes ellected from MI:2


+Richard Hammonds Documentry on The Opera House
+Footage found on YouTube

Showreel of Opera House


Images are then exported from the above showreel to images at 10 FPS



PROCESS

Create a new synth at photosynth.net

STEP 1 - Download Synth and watch Photosynth output


STEP 2 - Put Pictures in Distort Folder

STEP 3 - Prepare for PMVS2


Run "launch_pmvs_(SOH)"


STEP 4 - Create Visibility File

STEP 5 - Download HD Synth Pictures


These are the files generated from running the PhotoSynth Toolkit 7 and can now be used to generate the geometry.


The .ply file is then dragged into MeshLab workspace

Week 8

Cover Page

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
1.1 Overview
1.2 Aims and Objectives
1.3 Motivation and Purpose

2. The Project
2.1 Who is the Client?
2.2 The brief
2.3 The deliverables

3.0 Precedent Studies
3.1 From 2d Base Map to 3d City Model
3.2 An application of Photogrammetry Measuring Technology
3.3 Digitally Documenting D-Day
3.4 An Update on Automatic 3D Building Reconstruction
3.5 Data Generation for CAAD with Digital Photogrammetry
3.6 City model Enrichment

4.0 Development
4.1 Meetings
4.2 Weekly Updates
4.3 Software
4.4 Photography
4.5 Video/DVD search
4.6 Showreel generation
4.7 Reconstruction/Workflow
4.8 Results
4.9 Problems encountered
4.10Experimentation

5.0 Reflection
5.1 What i have learnt
5.2 Where to from here
5.3 Client Feedback

6.0 References and Bibliography

7.0 Appendix




This Week i had a look at VisualSFM
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/ccwu/vsfm/

read through some user info
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/ccwu/vsfm/doc.html

i dont really understand how to make it all work at the moment

I continued creating synths and compiling my list of films.
Also installed Quicktime pro in order to export still images from DVDs.

Week 7

The deliverables:

Compile a collection of movies that feature real urban sites. Focus on Rome, London, New York (and Sydney to a lesser degree if there is good material). Consider putting a call out to facebook friends to help, or searching for "Top 10 films set in London" or similar. 60 dvd quality films categorized.

Composite sites together between clips from the constituent films. You will have a show-reel for each specific location, to be used in presentations and for your reconstruction. Avoid video compression as this will negatively effect your reconstructions. Minimum 12 location show-reels.

(experiment with 20/10/5 frames per second to find optimal. Use Quicktime Pro or similar to export frames out.

reconstruct pointclouds, and attempt meshing using the procedure outlined for PhotoSynth toolkit (or alternative approaches). Minimum 4 meshed reconstructions.

Part 1
London
1.Sliding Doors
2. Snatch
3. Sweeney Todd
4. A Fish Called Wanda
5.The Other Boleyn Girl
6.Elizabeth
7.Casino Royale (1967) and new one?
8.Bridget Jones's Diary
9.Secrets & Lies
10.Gaslight
11.Shakespeare in Love
12.The Italian Job
13.Dial M for Murder
14.Bend It Like Beckham
15.The Ladykillers
Love, Actually
Notting Hill
About A Boy
Bridget Jones’s Diary
Closer
V for Vendetta
28 Days Later

Rome
1. The Talented Mr Ripley, Antony Minghella, 1999
2. Eat, Pray, Love (Eat part in Rome)
3. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini - 1960)
4. Three coins in the fountain (1950s)
5. Angels and Demons
6. Roman Holiday (1950S)
7. The Pink Panther 2
8. National Lampoon's European Vacation
9. Ocean's Twelve
10. Gladiator

New York
1. Sex and the City 2 (2010)
2. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
3. Date Night (2010)
4. 27 Dresses (2008)
5. P.S. I Love You (2007)
6. The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
7. The Interpreter (2005)
8. Spider-Man 2 (2004)
9. Shaft (2000)
10. 13 (2011)

Week 6

From my initial idea of using photogrammetry to recreate a scene, like Oxford street over a series of years. I have discovered that i need many more photos than what is available. This led to investigating film, tv and other media as a source for images. This idea could be used to inform design decisions in architecture, recreate scenes from an earlier point in time to be used and manipulated for film, or to document historical changes over time for council records or educational purposes.

At this point i am in the process of reconstructing high definition models a scene from a movie. This process raises a few issues like if you are extracting still images from film, how much of that content is actually real? Are you reconstructing a scene that is already a 3d model? I have reconstructed some test scenes to point clouds, ready to be taken to the next stage as 3d models. From here, these models could be used in applications such as google maps or a series of animations that could show changes over time, possibly combining real video footage and the recreated scene, this way it would be possible to blend past and the future elements.

Crows Nest Shop Reconstruction (point cloud)

Town Hall Reconstruction (Point cloud)

Church Reconstruction (Point cloud)

Finally a breakthrough! Here we have a model in MeshLab.

When it came to the dense reconstruction, with HD images, it stayed at the above point for 24 hours and didnt move. Im assuming it ran out of memory.

Precedent Study 6

Study 6 - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing - City model Enrichment - Philip D. Smart, Jonathan A. Quinn, Christopher B. Jones

This paper explores how freely available sources of georeferenced Web 2.0 information can be used for automated enrichment of 3D city models. There are many motivations for the production of these models, including:

visualising landscapes (planning and development)

virtual tours and games

radio communications network planning

providing detailed information about an individuals immediate environment through the use of Augmented Reality techniques.

Using these techniques, the information and geometry of nearby features can be overlaid on live video or still images of the environment. It is brought to my attention that the effectiveness of these 3D models depends not so much on visualisation but upon good quality annotation and information that can be associated with the model. There may be a need to link these 3D models to other sources for a richer experience, these may include Wikipedia where there is a large number of georeferenced articles about buildings, places, and other landmarks. OpenStreetMap and Geonames gazetteer are other resources.

http://www.citygml.org

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The combination of the 2D and 3D models results in a well segmented set of buildings which are accurate to the ground plan, problems matching the two at times is a concern and methods to resolve this are being examined, for example using fuzzy matching techniques that take into account the proximity of multiple point references from the different sources and the identification of potentially important building geometry.