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Color Isolation with FFMpeg

Color Isolation with FFMpeg

I had written a post awhile back about color isolation using imagemagick. Here is a recap, but this time using FFMpeg. This turned out to be a good color pattern to do testing against. the reason I prefer this is because it contains white and black space to visually understand the results of the filter. Lets try this command. ffplay -i “color-pattern.jpg” -vf “colorhold=0xFF0000:similarity=0.25” Now our image shows only the defined color threshold, in this example it’s red. Here are…

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Software Gimbal

Software Gimbal

In this post I’ll demonstrate how to stabilize and enhance low resolution video using FFMpeg. I will also discuss the pros and cons of hardware options available. From there the discussion will show examples of software options that have supplanted hardware. Lastly, I will introduce some examples of AI that others have used. The Z51 660mm Below is a side by side comparison of video taken from one of my fixed wing remote control (RC) planes. Here is the script…

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Camera Angular Calibration

Camera Angular Calibration

These are a couple of resources that I’ve used for RC camera information that you may find useful, https://www.chucklohr.com/808/c16/ and https://oscarliang.com/how-to-use-808-16-keychain-camera-manual-and-wiki/. Those links are specific to the 808-16 key chain camera which I have used for bike rides as well as drone flights. There is mention about field of view measurements in the first link. It references methods used which I was not able to reliably validate. http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showpost.php?p=22171449&postcount=6843 and https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showpost.php?p=22446815&postcount=7732 both use the Pythagorean theorem. The camera and background are…

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