Low-cost 360 Camera Part II

So got some 360 deg pictures of my yard after I mowed it today. I got to do some experimenting with a visor to reduce glare and reflections that may be problematic for mapping. Behold:

Notice the red rings and the twinkles close to the edge of the shade line.....This is due to glare. I anticipated this, so I brought a large box to use as a visor for the 360 rig.

Here you can see that the ringing is not as bad with the visor box.

This is how I set this photo shoot up. The camera is a Cannon S2IS. You can get your own from ebay from $15-$150.

I don't think this camera will work for the robot!

Gross! look how nasty the glass looks (I bet it is reflections).

Now lets try to de-warp the image.

I am going to try to recreate what this guy did: http://imgur.com/a/4ptjR .

I hope this works with LSD-SLAM.

8/20/17