PFTrack 2011
Apr 11, 2011 by CGP Staff
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The Pixel Farm announced the release of PFTrack 2011, the latest version of their camera tracking software. PFTrack has been completely re-written as a 64-bit, GPU-accelerated application. New features include:
– Tracking of deformable objects (such as an actor’s face while speaking) – since the track is accomplished using the tracking geometry’s vertices as opposed to point or pattern trackers, Geometry Tracking in PFTrack 2011 conquers many of the typical pitfalls that plague conventional tracking operations such as glints and highlights
– Image Modeling and Texture Extraction nodes generate detailed geometry for scene fitting, shadow boxing, and set reconstruction
– Per-pixel Z-Depth extraction now supports masks, used to specify the relative depth ordering of objects in the scene, producing a grey-scale depth map image and triangular mesh geometry
– Reengineered Optical Flow tools calculate dense optical flow fields describing the apparent motion of objects relative to the camera plane, and features retiming of clip and motion data to increase or decrease the apparent frame-rate of the camera. Retiming after a camera solve will also retime the camera solution, meaning shots do not require a re-tracking do to editorial decisions later in post production.
More at The Pixel Farm.
– Tracking of deformable objects (such as an actor’s face while speaking) – since the track is accomplished using the tracking geometry’s vertices as opposed to point or pattern trackers, Geometry Tracking in PFTrack 2011 conquers many of the typical pitfalls that plague conventional tracking operations such as glints and highlights
– Image Modeling and Texture Extraction nodes generate detailed geometry for scene fitting, shadow boxing, and set reconstruction
– Per-pixel Z-Depth extraction now supports masks, used to specify the relative depth ordering of objects in the scene, producing a grey-scale depth map image and triangular mesh geometry
– Reengineered Optical Flow tools calculate dense optical flow fields describing the apparent motion of objects relative to the camera plane, and features retiming of clip and motion data to increase or decrease the apparent frame-rate of the camera. Retiming after a camera solve will also retime the camera solution, meaning shots do not require a re-tracking do to editorial decisions later in post production.
More at The Pixel Farm.
Source: The Pixel Farm
