Blender Git Commit Log

Add new planar tracker features and use the new planar API

This commit removes the use of the legacy RegionTracker API from
Blender, and replaces it with the new TrackRegion API. This also
adds several features to the planar tracker in libmv:

- Do a brute-force initialization of tracking similar to "Hybrid"
mode in the stable release, but using all floats. This is slower
but more accurate. It is still necessary to evaluate if the
performance loss is worth it. In particular, this change is
necessary to support high bit depth imagery.

- Add support for masks over the search window. This is a step
towards supporting user-defined tracker masks. The tracker masks
will make it easy for users to make a mask for e.g. a ball.

- Add Pearson product moment correlation coefficient checking (aka
"Correlation" in the UI. This causes tracking failure if the
tracked patch is not linearly related to the template.

- Add support for warping a few points in addition to the supplied
points. This is useful because the tracking code deliberately
does not expose the underlying warp representation. Instead,
warps are specified in an aparametric way via the correspondences.

- Remove the "num_samples_xy" concept and replace it with
automatic determination of the number of samples. This makes the
API easier for users.

- Fix various bugs in the parameterizations.

There remains a bug with subpixel precision tracking when in
"keyframe" mode; this will get fixed shortly.