Skip to content

Write adjacent photogrammetry sidecars next to captured images #69

@gsrunion

Description

@gsrunion

OpenScan3 already persists scan metadata for captured photos, but it currently stores it under scanXX/metadata/*.json.

Proposal:

  • Also write a photogrammetry-friendly adjacent sidecar next to each image.
  • Example layout:
    • scan01_001.jpg
    • scan01_001.json

Suggested sidecar fields:

  • project_name
  • scan_index
  • step
  • stack_index
  • azimuth_deg
  • elevation_deg
  • radius
  • cartesian
  • camera_name

Why:

  • Easier downstream use with COLMAP and custom photogrammetry pipelines
  • Keeps image and pose metadata colocated
  • Avoids requiring tool-specific knowledge of OpenScan3's metadata/ folder layout

Notes:

  • This should be additive, not a replacement for the existing metadata/ directory.

Existing OpenScan3 code:

  • openscan_firmware/models/scan.py
  • openscan_firmware/controllers/services/tasks/core/scan_task.py
  • openscan_firmware/controllers/services/projects.py

Prototype/reference code:

  • openscan-pipeline/src/pipeline_orchestrator.py
    • writes adjacent JSON sidecars with pose fields

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    No labels
    No labels

    Type

    No type

    Projects

    No projects

    Milestone

    No milestone

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions