[PanoTools] initial beta release of hugin (a opensource, cross platform PT GUI)

[Edward Wildgoose]

> Edward Wildgoos,
> are you still interested in implementing an automatic registration algo for
> the pano tools suite?

Still interested, but I stopped looking for interesting papers on the idea.

I think the algorithm is fairly clear though (but not trivial).  Basically do rough image matching using a frequency based alignment method (I'm assuming it will be accurate enough given the distortions involved mind...).  Then several papers have referenced using a certain filter (forget the name) to locate hundreds of features in each image.  Match and optimise these between images (pruning the high error matches since these are likely mis registrations between each image).

I think this is the "right" way to do it, but certainly not trivial...

Ed W