Reconstructing 3D from drone footage using gimbal telemetry and CV tricks, with agents confirming object details
doodlestein · x · 2026-09-08
The author explains how to extract 3D structure from drone video when the camera is essentially static and only the gimbal sweeps: use telemetry at 25fps (matching every other video frame) with computer vision registration tricks.
A clever agentic layer: when the agent spots a car, it asks you to confirm make, model, and year so it can look up exact dimensions for absolute positioning; it also looks for reference objects like Starlink dishes.
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