[ptx] hugin

[Benoit Posté]

    Hello all,

    I've been lurking around here for a while, but I just wanted to 
seize the opportunity and voice some of my suggestions.

    Actually, the only major gripe I have with hugin is with the 
selection. Not with autopano, I like it just fine when I can place my 
own control points. Not with some minor problems with "auto fine 
tune": it usually works fine, and when it doesn't, you can always 
click again to correct the position of the point (in which case auto 
fine tune doesn't kick in again). No, the only thing that I really 
hate is the mouse cursor/selector ;) . All right, that might seem to 
be a very minor point, but I find it very awkward for chosing the 
control points, since it does not enable to see exactly what is 
selected. A bigger, square one, with some very fine crosshairs would 
be a great improvement, IMO ... or even better, what can be seen in 
some other Panorama Tools GUI, where a magnified version of what's 
under the selector is shown on the right hand side of said selector 
(with the crosshairs) ... not sure I made a lot of sense here, sorry. 
Of course, this kind of magnifying tool might be a bit difficult to 
implement in a cross platform environment, but simply shifting from 
this awkward selection circle to a crosshair version would help a 
great deal and wouldn't be too hard to do I guess. Or if many here 
like the round one, perhaps there could be an option where one could 
chose the pointer?
    Anyhow, that was my only real problem with hugin ;) . Otherwise, 
it's a great tool :) .

    By the way, hugin does crash rather often, so I got used to saving 
my panoramas each time I select the last control points in a couple of 
images, or each time I achieve a satisfying result after optimizing. 
Funnily enough, since I began to do this, hugin crashes much less 
often :D .

    HTH,
    Benoit.

Vaj Akos wrote:

> On May  6 15:42, Pablo d'Angelo wrote:
> 
>>>the interface is still not friendly.
>>>Needs improvement in selecting the points...
>>
>>What is you main concern with the selection?
> 
> 
> I had probles in case of heavily distorted or rotated images. 
> The present auto-positioning could not find the same place, i
> had to swich of "auto fine tune".
> A possibly improvement can be a sift based fine-tune: each
> mouse click could choose the closest image feature. Or the
> features can be marked to help the user to choose the points, that
> can be easily identified.
> This would be the other approach of autopano. Autopano chooses
> some points and the user deletes the wrong pairs. But this
> solution give just hints to the user for his selection.
>