Issue with 360° Photos on Mapillary – Pilot One + GPX + VID2JPG

Hi everyone!

I’m having trouble uploading 360° photos to Mapillary. I captured the footage using a Pilot One camera, extracted the GPX data from an external GPS, and generated frames using VID2JPG. However, after uploading to Mapillary, the images are being processed as flat photos instead of 360°.

Does anyone know how to ensure that Mapillary correctly recognizes the images as 360°? Is there a specific setting or metadata I need to adjust before uploading?

Thanks in advance for any help! :rocket:

Are you referring to the Labpano Pilot One 8K 360 camera?

yes - Let me show you a image

@jaderbavaresco - I’m not sure you need to be doing any conversion or generating frames. If you update the video file directly in desktop uploader or mapillary_tools what does it look like?

@jaderbavaresco In Italy we have the All time leader that usually uploads in 360: Mapillary I’m not sure but I think he uses the GoPro Max.

The minimum requirement for 360° imagery on Mapillary is that it has to have an aspect ratio of 2:1. Your example imagery has a resolution of 1,920×1,080, which equates to an aspect ratio of 16:9. Identify the aspect ratio and resolution of your video. Make sure VID2JPG outputs JPEGs in the correct aspect ratio.

There is no automagic setting. Ideally, 360° imagery should comply with the GPano metadata specification. Among other things, this spec requires 360° imagery to come in 2:1 aspect ratio.

Like @boris has suggested, try uploading the video directly via the Desktop Uploader or mapillary_tools.

Right, but my files are over 50 GB each, going up to more than 150 GB. How can I handle this case? Sending them directly to me became complicated — that’s why I’m extracting the 360 images using the Vid2JPG app. Any recommendations? I really need to upload these files for engineering purposes.

I am not sure I can follow.

Well, you are going to need enough local storage space. That’s for sure.

What do mapillary_tools or the Desktop Uploader return?