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If you have 2 cameras observing the same object and you know their coordinates and orientations in 3D space there's a fairly simple algorithm to recover 3D coordinates from pairs of matching pixels between the two images. It should be covered in most computer vision textbooks, such as the Szeliski book: https://szeliski.org/Book/. Of course you also need an algorithm for matching pixels between the two images. There are a number of ways of doing that, also covered in the book. OpenCV probably has code that would help with some or all of this.

> For viewing I'm thinking some kind of 3D engine.

OK, that makes sense, I just wanted to be sure we were talking about the same thing.

EDIT: BTW I assume that you don't have access to the data from the drones themselves. If you did it would probably be much easier just to capture GPS coordinates from them.

parent tgflynn 4 years ago

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