Methods for racking a camera bar, and related methods, systems and computer program products

Abstract

A method of setting up non-randomly positioned markers in a field of view of a camera bar, and tracking a pose of the camera bar, including: (i) a camera bar of a video camera viewing a field of view; (ii) displaying the camera bar's view on a display; (iii) the computer system: generating a pattern of non-random marker positions, and displaying them with the camera bar's view; (iv) detecting that a marker has been placed in a position of a non-random marker position; (v) recording a marker and a respective position of the marker; (vi) repeating steps (iv) and (v) until a predetermined number of different markers and respective marker positions have been recorded; (vii) matching markers detected with the recorded markers and their respective marker positions, to obtain a pose of the camera bar; (viii) repeating step (vii), to track the pose of the camera bar.