Taking photos with my iPhone is fool proof, for the most part. The auto balance and focus take most of the effort out taking good shots. There is a lot that goes on behind the scenes that makes this possible. The image sensor data is queued and processed by the phone’s CPU with a bunch of commands in memory. In near realtime, the resulting information is sent to the screen so the operator can do what they need to do….
It is time to step back from system administrative tasks and move back into the subject of digitized multimedia data processing. The subject is a vast ever evolving beast. Multimedia basically consists of some combination of visual or auditory information. With digitized multimedia, additional data can be layered which provides any number of uses. In this post, I’ll be focusing on image file meta-data. There are several levels and flavors of meta-data which I won’t cover in detail here. However,…
Introduction – Making some sense out of the mess of words The title is a bit of a misnomer since orthomosaic mapping has more to do images gathered perpendicular to the observed object, as in aerial photography. I decided to keep the title since the method for rendering of 3D objects from a group of two dimensional images is the same. Additionally, the basis of the rendering has roots in mapping relief. All though the title might be somewhat incorrect,…