[Zador-Pataki]

Motivation

Support equirectangular panorama input through the calibrated-rig pipeline. Configurable virtual cameras let each panorama be represented by perspective views with known relative poses.

Changes

• Projection

  • Project panoramas into a virtual pinhole rig with configurable view directions, image dimensions, and field of view.
  • Retain the source panorama association and projection settings with the run.

• Tracking and matching

  • Track each virtual camera stream over time using the rig approach introduced in Support calibrated camera rigs #45, with shared keyframe timestamps.
  • Exclude matching between views from the same panorama at the same timestamp. These virtual cameras share one optical center, so their matches provide no triangulation baseline.

• Visualization

  • Display the original panorama with projected camera outlines and observed keypoints in the viewer.