Vicon, developer of motion capture and image
understanding systems, for the entertainment, life science and defense
industries, has today announced that it will be showcasing a pre-release
version of its eagerly awaited boujou 5 at the Siggraph conference this
August in New Orleans, LA. boujou is the industry leading camera
matchmoving software allowing 3D professionals to automatically derive
complex camera motion and calibration data from image sequences.
Building on its established ease of use and automation, boujou 5 is
enhanced with a unique new way of solving 3D camera positioning and motion
paths from image sequences. This new approach radically accelerates the
solve and allows users more manual interaction within complex shots.
The upgrade includes exciting new features that many existing boujou users
will have been eagerly anticipating, such as:
- New Automatic Sequential Solver-Previous versions of boujou took the
entire shot into account before delivering a solve. Now, the application
looks at a single frame at a time, which not only enables the user to
intervene, it can make the entire process a lot faster
- Fully functional Graph Editor-Lets the user manually tweak the camera
data and, if necessary, reprocess a shot. boujou 5 also provides the
ability to lock valid sections of solved data or sections which are known
to be correct, which animators can then use to improve other segments of an
image sequence.
- Reference Frames- Allows users to import still images taken with any
camera and use them to assist in a solve
Phil Elderfield, Product Manager at Vicon explains, "Customers have been
asking for greater control, and that's exactly what we're delivering with
boujou 5. The new manual tracking tools will give users the ability to step
in and work directly with the data. Even the trickiest shot can be solved
in boujou 5."
"boujou has always been the weapon of choice for top VFX professionals,
being used on films such as Charlotte's Web, Tropic Thunder and Angels and
Demons," said Douglas Reinke, CEO and president at Vicon."Three years of
research and development have gone into creating boujou 5 and we're
confident it stands out
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