RTC360 - Panoramic Images Shows Artefacts, Shadows Caused by Parallax, no Colored Stripes on Tablet
Problem
Leica RTC360
Sometimes following artefacts /shadows are visible at RTC360 pano images:
Leica Cyclone FIELD 360
This can also happen with the Field 360 software using the tablet:
In this example, some stripes are not coloured on the Apple iPad tablet. This the case mostly in close range.
Leica Cyclone CORE
Objects like this are then coloured (inpainting method) in office software (e.g. Cyclone), but the quality can vary:
Solution
This is caused by the parallax between the camera and the laser - the parallax is always visible to the left of the object in the foreground.
The defects in the panoramic images are created because there are areas that the scanner literally does not see. Hence there is no information available to do better in this context.
During the import into the office software the so-called 'inpainting' tries to replace the wrongly coloured pixels with the coloured in the neighbourhood.
Unfortunately, this might not always succeed satisfactorily.
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