Building Construction Time Lapse
Author: Qinye Li (qinyeli@umich.edu)
Last updated: Aug, 2020
About
Back in the days when working in the office was still a thing, there was a new building getting constructed outside of the Micro Kitchen window at my office. Taking a picture of the construction site soon got into my coffee break routine, when I realized that I could make a cool time lapse movie out of these photos. From Dec 2018 to Feb 2020, I have taken 95 photos in total, which are enough to give a cool effect when I swipe through them in Apple Photos.
One of the issues I had was that even though all these photos are taken against the same window in the MK, each of them has a different translation along the x-axis and the y-axis. That inevitable error results in a shaky effect in the swipe-through. A couple of my friends who knows CV better suggested that I use something like a video stablier to de-shake the movie.
And therefore this repo. Some little scripts for processing the photos into a nice movie.
Final result:
Removing some of the blurry photos did make it better, but the video is still shaky towards the end ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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