Facebook Develops Custom 360-Degree Video Stabilization Technology

Facebook announced at its @Scale Conference 2016 Wednesday that it developed a custom-designed stabilization technology for 360-degree videos.

Facebook announced at its @Scale Conference 2016 in San Jose, Calif., Wednesday that it developed a custom-designed stabilization technology for 360-degree videos.

Other announcements by the social network at @Scale included the open-sourcing of its Zstandard compression algorithm and the deployment of its MyRocks next-generation MySQL storage engine based on RocksDB.

Facebook said in an email to SocialTimes that current video-stabilization technology is generally designed for videos with narrow frame views, such as those captured via smartphones, and for 2-D motion models, which is inadequate for 360 video, adding of its new technology:

This new approach combines 2-D and 3-D stabilization methods with a new “deformed rotation” motion model to make shaky 360 videos incredibly smooth so that they’re easier to watch with less chance of motion sickness.

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