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Freestyle drone flying and racing is a growing sport and hobby. Combining aspects of more traditional RC aircraft hobbies, videography, DIY electronics and even Star Wars Pod Racing (according to some), drone pilots use first person view controls to create creative and acrobatic explorations of architecture. My brother, Johnny FPV, is increasingly successful in this new sport.
For this capture experiment, I used Johnny’s drone footage as a window into Miami’s architecture. By extracting video frames from his footage, I was able to photogrammetrically produce models of the very architecture he was flying around. While position-locked footage from videography drones such as the DJI Phantom has been shown to create realistic 3d models, the frenetic nature of my footage produced a very different result.