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Panorama Stitching, Rick Szeliski's Work Is the Best
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post Aug 17 2006, 09:20 PM
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I noticed the thread on Photosynth and thought I would add a little more about that research group. I know Rick Szeliski and Matt Uyttendaele, very smart people.

I've tried pretty much all of the panorama stitchers out there. Adobe's is by far the worst, and Microsoft's is by far the best. Szeliski's algorithms are currently found in Microsoft Image Suite 2006. Unlike most stitchers, it is based on a robust treatment of the general camera projective transformations, so it can handle rotations, panning, zooming and even limited camera-position changes (modulo big visiblity changes of course).

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Here's an example that first impressed me. In a Soviet documentary film I own, they discuss this diagram of the Venera soil-drilling apparatus, but they never show the whole diagram. They pan around and zoom in and out, and I didn't expect to be able to resolve all that into one image. I was quite surprised when Rick's program did it.

An updated version of the stitcher is in a new product, Microsoft Graphic Designer, which will give users more control over a big class of transformations (affine, homography, 3D rotation, etc). It handles lens distortion and a variety of projection surfaces. I haven't tried it myself yet. link

I have Panorama Factory and Autostitcher of course, but I never use them now, they are nowhere near as powerful as DIS2006.

Uyttendaele also recommended a program to me called ptlens for some non-projective transformations like vignetting.
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djellison
post Sep 26 2006, 06:58 PM
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We HAVE seen the first Jupiter image - and we are a LONG way from worrying about the NH Pluto encounter - and being an encounter over a period of a few weeks, it's not analogous to MER or Cassini.

There are reasons to be upset over some things, but NH imagery is not one.
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- DonPMitchell   Panorama Stitching   Aug 17 2006, 09:20 PM
- - Malmer   Thats very cool. I have used ptGui and it works v...   Sep 17 2006, 10:36 PM
|- - mars loon   Mattias, very nice job on your immense saturn por...   Sep 18 2006, 12:14 AM
|- - Malmer   QUOTE (mars loon @ Sep 18 2006, 02:14 AM)...   Sep 25 2006, 06:27 PM
|- - ugordan   QUOTE (Malmer @ Sep 25 2006, 07:27 PM) Th...   Sep 26 2006, 10:48 AM
|- - DonPMitchell   QUOTE (Malmer @ Sep 25 2006, 11:27 AM) Th...   Sep 26 2006, 02:26 PM
||- - djellison   QUOTE (DonPMitchell @ Sep 26 2006, 03:26 ...   Sep 26 2006, 03:30 PM
||- - ugordan   QUOTE (djellison @ Sep 26 2006, 04:30 PM)...   Sep 26 2006, 03:44 PM
|- - Ian R   QUOTE (Malmer @ Sep 25 2006, 07:27 PM) Th...   Sep 26 2006, 05:58 PM
|- - Toma B   QUOTE (Malmer @ Sep 25 2006, 08:27 PM) Th...   Sep 26 2006, 06:41 PM
|- - ElkGroveDan   QUOTE (Malmer @ Sep 25 2006, 10:27 AM) Th...   Sep 26 2006, 07:07 PM
- - Stu   QUOTE (Malmer @ Sep 25 2006, 06:27 PM) Th...   Sep 26 2006, 10:08 AM
- - djellison   Not the first time CP has responded negatively to ...   Sep 26 2006, 11:10 AM
- - edstrick   The very simple fact is that the Cassini Imaging t...   Sep 26 2006, 11:28 AM
- - ljk4-1   This might also explain what went on with the Cass...   Sep 26 2006, 12:47 PM
- - remcook   QUOTE (ugordan @ Sep 26 2006, 11:48 AM) I...   Sep 26 2006, 03:09 PM
- - Phil Stooke   My understanding was that the public release of da...   Sep 26 2006, 06:03 PM
|- - AlexBlackwell   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Sep 26 2006, 08:03 A...   Sep 26 2006, 06:07 PM
- - Toma B   ...and some more bad news... QUOTE She also is the...   Sep 26 2006, 06:46 PM
- - djellison   We HAVE seen the first Jupiter image - and we are ...   Sep 26 2006, 06:58 PM
- - Malmer   Easy now! Dont you all go on a rampage over t...   Sep 27 2006, 08:59 AM
- - edstrick   Actually, the most useful panorama stitcher is a g...   Sep 27 2006, 09:53 AM
- - djellison   When the shed-office is finished, I have two plans...   Sep 27 2006, 09:59 AM
|- - AlexBlackwell   QUOTE (djellison @ Sep 26 2006, 11:59 PM)...   Sep 27 2006, 06:56 PM
- - djellison   Oops - cunning remote image link blocking...but I ...   Sep 27 2006, 07:00 PM
- - Bjorn Jonsson   There is one thing that needs to be taken into acc...   Sep 27 2006, 09:27 PM


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