Where can I find the highest quality WRC onboards from recent years?

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28th October 2022, 21:50
wololord

Where can I find the highest quality WRC onboards from recent years?

Hello,

I'm about to start work on a university project which will use machine learning and object detection to track the road and spectators from WRC onboard footage. The end goal is to track vicinity / elevation / position of spectators against the road in order to gauge if there are any dangerous spectator positions on a stage.

I'm searching for the highest quality onboard footage available from all rallies from the past ~ 5 years, and I'm not sure about which source would be the best. I've heard some complain about the broadcast quality on WRC+, so I'm not sure what their archived footage would be like. Red bull TV, YouTube are the other sources I'm aware of at the moment.

If anyone has any further suggestions I'd really appreciate it! Thanks
29th October 2022, 00:18
NOT

WRC+ onboard footage are top quality, and they have a huge archive, but you cannot download them.
29th October 2022, 07:07
jaani8

I think I can help, please DM.
29th October 2022, 08:35
wyler

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Originally Posted by wololord

Hello,

I'm about to start work on a university project which will use machine learning and object detection to track the road and spectators from WRC onboard footage. The end goal is to track vicinity / elevation / position of spectators against the road in order to gauge if there are any dangerous spectator positions on a stage.

I'm searching for the highest quality onboard footage available from all rallies from the past ~ 5 years, and I'm not sure about which source would be the best. I've heard some complain about the broadcast quality on WRC+, so I'm not sure what their archived footage would be like. Red bull TV, YouTube are the other sources I'm aware of at the moment.

If anyone has any further suggestions I'd really appreciate it! Thanks

try emailing wrc+ with the project description and with a letter from university, they should be interested!
29th October 2022, 08:56
becher

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Originally Posted by NOT

WRC+ onboard footage are top quality, and they have a huge archive, but you cannot download them.

Well one can screen record them.
29th October 2022, 11:29
J4MIE

I would imagine for a University it would need to be a legit source.
29th October 2022, 19:46
NOT

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Originally Posted by becher

Well one can screen record them.

yes if you have a 100 tb of hd space you can have 10 onboards in there....
7th November 2022, 15:44
Myrvold

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Originally Posted by NOT

yes if you have a 100 tb of hd space you can have 10 onboards in there....

Learn to compress and it will be fine.
7th November 2022, 21:23
PLuto

Quote:

Originally Posted by wololord

Hello,

I'm about to start work on a university project which will use machine learning and object detection to track the road and spectators from WRC onboard footage. The end goal is to track vicinity / elevation / position of spectators against the road in order to gauge if there are any dangerous spectator positions on a stage.

I'm searching for the highest quality onboard footage available from all rallies from the past ~ 5 years, and I'm not sure about which source would be the best. I've heard some complain about the broadcast quality on WRC+, so I'm not sure what their archived footage would be like. Red bull TV, YouTube are the other sources I'm aware of at the moment.

If anyone has any further suggestions I'd really appreciate it! Thanks

Beast source? Ask directly the teams, they usually have their own onboard videos and sometimes in very good quality. You can try also WRC promoter, but difficult to guess if they will be interested or not.
8th November 2022, 03:19
NOT

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Originally Posted by Myrvold

Learn to compress and it will be fine.

then it will not be HD
8th November 2022, 07:21
flat_right

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Originally Posted by NOT

then it will not be HD

compression doesn't define if it is HD or not. Raw video or h265, both are in HD (if filmed so) but latter limits color depth, averages (sub samples) color, and throws away information to reduce the space it takes up.

As said here, use some screen record (kazam in linux for example can record in mp4 (h264)) or there are programs available which can be used to download all live onboard files from wrc site.