App to extract images asociated with GPS

Purpose:

Given a GoPro movie with metadata (gpmf format), the application extracts images with the given framerate and interpolates the GPS coordinates, speed, accelerometer, gyro, and any other desired metadata.

Dependencies

Boost (for filesystem stuff):

  $ sudo apt install libboost-all-dev

Opencv3: Link

libyaml-cpp for yaml file creation and parsing: Link:

Ubuntu 16.04 (apt-get installs v0.5.2):

  $ sudo apt-get install libyaml-cpp-dev

Ubuntu 14.04 (apt-get installs v0.5.1 which does not contain yaml-cpp-config.cmake):

  $ git clone https://github.com/jbeder/yaml-cpp.git
  $ cd yaml-cpp/
  $ mkdir build
  $ cd build/
  $ cmake ..
  $ make -j 
  $ sudo make install

Usage

This code uses the gpmf-parser so that submodule has to be cloned into its folder (../gpmf-parser):

  $ git submodule init
  $ git submodule update

After that we can compile and run the script, which parses the metadata in video.mp4 at a frame rate of 3fps, and it saves images and yaml file to folder /tmp/output:

  $ cd img_gps_extractor
  $ mkdir build && cd build
  $ cmake ..
  $ make -j
  $ ./img_gps_extractor -i video.mp4 -f 3 -o /tmp/output

As a design choice, the GoPro never saves videos bigger than 4Gb (not even when SD is extFat). If a video is bigger than this, it splits it into sub videos, with a sort of complicated way to handle the metadata. If this is the case, use the -d option, instead of the -i option.

The following example gets all the videos that correspond to one video in the folder /tmp/input and it deals with everything so that you don't have to merge them externally (not even ffmpeg is currently able to merge gopro videos keeping the metadata):

  $ ./img_gps_extractor -d /tmp/input -f 3 -o /tmp/output

The directory should look something like this:

  $ tree /tmp/input
  /tmp/input
  ├── GOPRXXXX.MP4
  ├── GP01XXXX.MP4
  └── GP02XXXX.MP4

The only check that we do is for the .MP4 extension and then we order in alphabetical order to recover the order structure, so don't rename the files please :)

Format of the output .yaml file:

This is temporary, but it gives an idea of how the final one will look like:

ts is timestamp in seconds
gps is:
- lat (degrees)
- long (degrees)
- altitude (meters)
- 2D earth speed magnitude (m/s)
- 3D speed magnitude (m/s)

000000.jpg:  # Original File: /tmp/input/GOPRXXXX.MP4, Frame rate: 0.020000
  ts: 0
  gps:
    lat: 50.72745
    long: 7.087335
    alt: 121.54
    2dv: 0.061
    3dv: 0.11
000001.jpg:
  ts: 50.00829
  gps:
    lat: 50.72681
    long: 7.088741
    alt: 117.3692
    2dv: 7.321869
    3dv: 7.33
000002.jpg:  # Original File: /tmp/input/GP01XXXX.MP4, Frame rate: 0.020000 (-< when the video it was taken from changes, we comment!)
  ts: 99.99573
  gps:
    lat: 50.7245
    long: 7.09001
    alt: 91.91341
    2dv: 7.956978
    3dv: 7.976304

To parse the yaml file from python:

import yaml
with open("metadata.yaml", 'r') as stream:
  data= yaml.load(stream)
data['000001.jpg']['gps']['lat'] #latitude gps of image 000001.jpg
data['000034.jpg']['ts'] #timestamp for image 000034.jpg

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