Initialise photo positions from EXIF information

Sybren A. Stüvel

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Jun 30, 2019, 1:34:33 PM6/30/19

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Hello there,

My name is Sybren, and I enjoy shooting spherical panorama photos with my drone (a DJI Mavic 2 Pro). The drone includes its own orientation and the camera gimbal orientation in the EXIF information of each photo:

GimbalRollDegree                : +0.00
GimbalYawDegree                 : +140.90
GimbalPitchDegree               : -16.80
FlightRollDegree                : +4.10
FlightYawDegree                 : +124.10
FlightPitchDegree               : +3.30
CamReverse                      : 0
GimbalReverse                   : 0

Is it possible to use those EXIF tags when loading the photos into Hugin? That would position the photos in roughly the correct location, and make hard-to-stitch projects (like a rolling sea, where there are no stable points at all) a lot easier to work with.

Cheers,

Sybren

T. Modes

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Jun 30, 2019, 2:08:13 PM6/30/19

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Am Sonntag, 30. Juni 2019 19:34:33 UTC+2 schrieb Sybren A. Stüvel:

Is it possible to use those EXIF tags when loading the photos into Hugin? That would position the photos in roughly the correct location, and make hard-to-stitch projects (like a rolling sea, where there are no stable points at all) a lot easier to work with.

This was discussed recently for a similar drone. See https://groups.google.com/d/msg/hugin-ptx/Af7TG2Bq-ko/WzqwzGigHAAJ

Maybe it needs some little adjustments.

Sybren A. Stüvel

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Jun 30, 2019, 2:27:57 PM6/30/19

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On Sunday, 30 June 2019 20:08:13 UTC+2, T. Modes wrote:

This was discussed recently for a similar drone. See https://groups.google.com/d/msg/hugin-ptx/Af7TG2Bq-ko/WzqwzGigHAAJ
Maybe it needs some little adjustments.

Thanks for the fast reply. I can make the adjustments, I can run the assistant via Edit > User Defined Assistant menu. Hugin says there are errors in the file (probably some bad adjustments by me) with a popup, but before showing the popup it removes the actual errors from the screen. It just flies by very rapidly. Is there any way to see those errors?

Sybren A. Stüvel

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Jun 30, 2019, 2:39:09 PM6/30/19

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On Sunday, 30 June 2019 20:27:57 UTC+2, Sybren A. Stüvel wrote:

Thanks for the fast reply. I can make the adjustments, I can run the assistant via Edit > User Defined Assistant menu. Hugin says there are errors in the file (probably some bad adjustments by me) with a popup, but before showing the popup it removes the actual errors from the screen. It just flies by very rapidly. Is there any way to see those errors?

PS: I managed to fix the errors by manually running the modified command on the CLI, and now it works like a charm. Thanks again!

T. Modes

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Jun 30, 2019, 2:40:15 PM6/30/19

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Am Sonntag, 30. Juni 2019 20:27:57 UTC+2 schrieb Sybren A. Stüvel:

Thanks for the fast reply. I can make the adjustments, I can run the assistant via Edit > User Defined Assistant menu. Hugin says there are errors in the file (probably some bad adjustments by me) with a popup, but before showing the popup it removes the actual errors from the screen. It just flies by very rapidly. Is there any way to see those errors?

Activate option copy log to clipboard in the preferences and inspect the clipboard content after running.

Alternatively run it from the command line (hugin_executor --assistant --user-defined-assistant=...)

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