Elphel Develoment Blog

Motivation While working on the second generation of the Eyesis panoramic cameras, we decided to try go from capturing the series of the individual panoramic images to the 3d reconstruction. There are multiple successful implementations of such process, we just plan to achieve higher precision of capturing the 3d worlds using Elphel ability to design [...]

We made a new Live USB version of Elphel Toolkit. It is available for downloading here. Software It is an entire Operating System that can be booted from a USB drive or DVD (of course you can install it on your computer as well) and comes with all Elphel relevant software preinstalled. As the basis [...]

We have finally received the parts for Elphel-Eyesis-4π camera and started assembling them hoping that all will fit together as we planned. And for the most part they do, which seems a bit like magic to us: you design the camera on the computer in a 3D CAD program, make a long list of parts [...]

We are proud to add a new product and camera KIT to the Elphel portfolio. See the pricelist. The NC353L-369-IMU/GPS is a new camera configuration with an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) and optional GPS receiver. In addition to storing the geographical coordinates with each captured image in a video stream this allows to also save 3D [...]

This April we attached Eyesis camera to a backpack and took it to the Southern Utah. Unfortunately I did not finish the IMU hardware then so we could rely only on a GPS for tagging the imagery. GPS alone can work when the camera is on the car, but with a camera moving at pedestrian [...]

For almost 3 years we had a possibility to geo-tag the images and video using external GPS and optional accelerometer/compass module that can be mounted inside the camera. Information from the both sensors is included in the Exif headers of the images and video frames. The raw magnetometer and accelerometer data stored at the image [...]

Tacking high-resolution panoramic images in the remote places, that can only be accessed by feet is an option now available with the Elphel-Eyesis 360 degree panorama camera. The camera’s size (1.3 x 0.3 meters) and relatively light weight (10kgs) allow to mount it on a backpack frame and carry by a person. There were multiple [...]

Click here for the active view (resizeable) Description Works in Firefox 4.0 and Chrome. Does NOT work in Firefox 3.6.X. The above sample shows how custom panoramas (in our case: a panorama we shot with our Elphel Eyesis) can be integrated in a custom StreetView. Elphel Eyesis images is the top-left window. The top-right window [...]

Last week our phone system was broken into and we’ve got a phone bill for some five hundred dollars for the calls to Gambia. That expense was not terrible, but still that amount is usually enough for many months of the phone service for our small company – the international phone rates in the VoIP [...]

If you can see this, your browser doesn’t understand IFRAME. However, we’ll still link you to the file.     If you can see this, your browser doesn’t understand IFRAME. However, we’ll still link you to the file. Both, Google Maps API and Open Layers API, are quite simple, though it can take some time to [...]

As of today 2 new accessory parts have been added to the official Elphel price list. These are 45 degree and 90 degree angle pieces for the sensor front end. They can also be combined to create a 135 degree angle piece.

Current state of the Eyesis project, what worked and what did not. Or worked not as good as we would like it to Most of the last year we spent developing Eyesis panoramic cameras, designing and then assembling the hardware, working on the software for image acquisition and processing. It was and continues to be [...]

View the results We had nice New Year vacations (but so short, unfortunately) at Maple Grove Hot Springs, and between soaking in the nice hot pools I tried the emerging technology I never dealt with before – WebGL, a part of HTML-5 standard that gives you the power of the graphic cards 3-d capability in [...]