[ptx] autostitch -- fully automatic stitching by the Brown and Lowe

[Mike Runge]

It's incredible simple and fast and seems to be able to handle complex
multirows.
I miss at least a switch to select the projection method :-(

best, mike

On 11/29/2004, "Pablo dAngelo" <Pablo.dAngelo at web.de> wrote:

>Hi!
>
>I've posted a similar message from one of my other email accounts but its still waiting
>for the postmaster to let it through, so I'm sending this one instead.
>
>Its been quite some time since Matthew Brown and David Lowe published
>their papers about SIFT features and panorama creation. Now a first (unlimited)
>demo version of their software is available under http://www.autostitch.net.
>
>Basically its autopano + PTOptimizer + enblend all in one program.
>
>Works really well for most pano's with static scenery. Its the best automatic
>program for multirow panos that I know besides hugin and Panotools :)
>
>But this is not a big surprise since David Lowe and Matthew Brown have
>invented the SIFT algorithm that is used in autopano and autopano-sift.
>
>Luckily, one can't get perfect results out of an automatic program, so Panotools
>are still the best program for technically difficult panos, because autostitch is
>not very flexible, and doesn't support many features of panotools. Its a great
>program anyway, and manages to stitch stuff better than any other tool
>than panotools.
>
>Unfortunately it is windows only.
>
>ciao
>  Pablo
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