[ptx] HUGIN/Autopano/Enblend/suggestions

[Ute Karsten Kiessling]

Hello,

So I am first to introduce myself. I have stitched some
panoramas/mosaics with Realviz stitcher 3.1 (DEMO), Photoshop (for flat
mosaics) and PTGUI/Panotools. I found for myself, that realviz has the
easiest surface and workflow (no settings of controlpoints) and work
very fast, but it work not very well with "handmade" panos (without
panohead) like mine and of course it is very expensiv. So with
PTGUI/Panotools you have more control over the project and it worked
quit well.

But now I found the HUGIN-Project and I'am very impressed from your work
on HUGIN, Enblend and autopano, congratulation! In HUGIN I was surprised
over the exact and easy setting and finetune of the controlpoints. (I
only missed or have not found the option to rotate the pictures or tile
the window horizontaly).

My suggestions:

1) Enblend

Uses multilayer tiff where every image have the size of the full
panorama/mosaic (requirements: fast computer, lots of RAM). This could
be impossible or time and RAM consuming on large projects . But it
should be possible to do the same with GEOTIFF's, where every GEOTIFF
have only the size of itselve but it know its position. "It is based on
the standard TIFF image format with extra header tags used to store
various types of georeferencing information such as image extents and
projection system."
(a first link is: http://remotesensing.org/geotiff/geotiff.html)

2) HUGIN/autopano

An alternative surface to manage panoramas without setting
controlpoints, horizontaly tiled like this in realviz stitcher. A window
with the images to stitch and a stitching window. In the stitching
window you place images in an overlapping position to match visual
features in each of the images. With this definition of the position and
overlapping area HUGIN/autopano should be able to stitch it even for
difficult panoramas.



Best regards

Karsten

BTW: Have you trieded to contact Helmut Dersch to get the sourcecode of
PTSticher and all other stuff?