Convert a 360 degree video to a single image

Question

I recently took a few 10 second video clips of my surroundings, by simply taking starting a video, rotating around, staying in the same spot, and ending the video when I reached the point where I started. Now I have a lot of 10 second video clips, and I was wondering if there was a way or a software out there to convert these videos, into one very wide, still image.

I also got thinking, and was wondering if there was some way to make my own program to construct a single image out of the video, any help on the matter would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you.

Answer 1

You can indeed write your own program (in some extend) to do this stitching operation. You should use opencv to do this and program your project in python or c++, depending on your preferences.

Here some pointers to start:

opencv: tutorial stitcher

stitching from several cameras in real time

video stitching

As a bonus, your can think of doing superresolution process to increase the level of details of the resulting image !

Robust And Fast Super Resolution

opencv: superresolution

Answer 2

This command extracts one frame from time 00:00:02 of the input video and saves it into image.jpg:

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -ss 00:00:02 -vframes 1 image.jpg

Or you can use Virtual Dub: reduce the number of frames per seconds in video/options, then save as "image sequence".

Then you will need a "panorama stitcher" like Hugin to properly stitch together all the extracted frames into one single image without overlappings or discontinuities.