I have used motion tracking to stabilize videos taken with mobile phones (phone in hand). It works quite well but I have several questions about how to improve it.
- What is best to track? I use small spots with good contrast, but those spots change size and shape when the mobile shakes. Any suggestion?
- When the spots are obscured e.g. by some people passing, is it ok to disable the marker or should I manually add the probable location?
- What is best for pattern area? Size similar to the spot I am tracking, or much bigger? And for search area?
- Sometimes I see that the pattern and search areas change in size. Is there a way to change them to a given size along the video, e.g. 30x30? I don’t know why they change.
- The pattern area rotates, what is the logic behind the rotation? Is the pattern area rotation useful for anything?
I have been watching many stabilization tracking tutorials in YouTube but for some reason I cannot get a good result even re-locating all the markers by hand, frame by frame… hard work!