I am currently taking 360 degree photos on German motorways. The battery built into my Insta 360 X3 is not sufficient for long journeys on motorways, so I power the camera via USB-C. Due to the high wind pressure, there is a risk that moisture will penetrate the camera via the plug. Therefore, I mount the camera so that the USB port is facing against the direction of travel.
The sideways orientation of the camera also has the advantage that it does not stand in the wind like a fly swatter. After an upload, the journeys in Mapillary initially look really good, but unfortunately after a few days the images in Mapillary jump around wildly. What am I doing wrong?
@osmplus_org - could you clarify what exactly you mean by “jump around wildly”? Are you referring to the fact that in one frame you’re seeing the road ahead, and in the next its the sky, and in the next its the view behind the vehicle? That seems to be what I’m seeing in the link you shared. Are you share the camera didn’t move here? Do you have the original images/video for this segment?
First of all, thank you for taking my question. I took all the pictures myself, they run in any 360 degree software, after choosing the desired viewing direction they are nice and straight, even shortly after uploading them to Mapillary everything is fine. The problems probably start when Mapillary converts the transition between two image positions into an almost fluid movement. After this conversion, in my case the playback loses its fixed orientation and the viewing direction jumps from front to back and also to the side. Is it possible that my lateral lens orientation, in which the stitching takes place in the direction of travel, is throwing the Mapillary renderer off track.
@manuelknott - do you think this an SFM issue? Any ideas what could be happening here?