Mapillary setup 2025
It is 2025 and the whole Mapillary setup needed an upgrade. I was looking for a 360° setup and couldnt decide until i met Mr. Panoramax Christian Quest in Karlsruhe who recommended the Kandao Qoocam 3 Ultra.
Now i am playing around a bit with the Qoocam 3 and there are a multitude of ways of taking images with various intervals, settings, and post-processing pipelines.
There are issues with the Qoocam 3 Ultra though. I wish it could stitch Images in the Camera, make Interval images at 96MPixel with a frequency of less than 1Hz etc etc.
My pipeline currently uses Hugin to stitch the images. Stitching takes about a minute per Image (Hugin is sloooooow) but that can run as batch.
My pipeline currently has no "Horizon" corection which is an issue going on a 2 wheel vehicle which may lean to a side. So one would need to correct yaw, roll and pitch, depending on the orientation of the camera.
I decided to point lenses left and right because i already have 10 years worth of imagery pointing forward.
Nevertheless - here is my github repo with a shell script quickly hacked to get my workflow going.
Nevertheless - its an old wooden Tripod i still had which is rock solid. Camera is at 2,50m or something.
https://github.com/flohoff/kandao-qoocam3-ultra-stitch
