[ptx] autopano-sift-1.6-win-1.zip, No more Gtk#. Windows usersplease test :)

[Mike Runge]

I also didn't get it to run successfully - not even on the command line.
I had the same problems with the previously posted win-binary of Chris.
Am I doing something basically wrong:

- I downloaded the archive and extracted the files into a directory,
which is within the path.
- in the command shell, I changed into a folder with some photos (3 Megs).
- I ran 'generatekeys filename.jpg filename.key
- generatekeys started with the following message:

SIFT Keypoint Generation
===============================================================================
The use of this software is restricted by certain conditions.
See the "LICENSE" file distributed with the program for details.

This software is provided for non-commercial use only. The University
of British Columbia has applied for a patent on the SIFT algorithm in
the United States. Commercial applications of this software may
require a license from the University of British Columbia.
===============================================================================

Building octave, (3070, 4094)

but the process never ends :-(

MEM usage changes frequently between 400 and 90 MB, CPU usage is 98% at
the beginning and nearly 0 after 2 or 4 Minutes.

System ist wXP on a 800Mhz mobile Pentium and 512 MB RAM
Is it required to download/install/configure anything else to run
autopano-sift? I previously tried GTK# and an older Mono-package to run
the binary of Chris, but all my tries ended up in the same szenario?!

best, mike


On 9/20/2004, "Thorsten Vieth" <t.vieth at gmx.de> wrote:

>Hi Sebastian,
>
>downloaded the 1.6 version, unpacked, and copied the content of your zip
>file over the existing versions. I did not get autopano-sift to work
>from hugin, even after copying the lib-files to the hugin directory. The
>command line for generatekeys.exe and autopano.exe seemed to run fine at
>first.
>
>When trying to generate keys (just tested with 2 pictures so far), one
>downside was the HUGE memory consumption. I have 512 MB RAM, which is
>probably not very much. I observed hefty CPU peaks while generating
>keys. At the same time, my virtual memory file grew from about 600 MB to
>1.5 GIG (!). Autopano-sift crashed because not enough virtual memory was
>available when the swap file was at 1.6 GIG. Hope that helps.
>
>Regards
>Thorsten
>
>Sebastian Nowozin schrieb:
>
>>Hello everybody and sorry to bother all non-users ;-)
>>
>>
>>Attached is a small zipfile that contains the bare minimum of autopano-sift 1.6
>>with all dependencies removed, only a .NET framework is required.  To use the
>>file, just download the normal 1.6 release and copy over the executeable files.
>>Then you should be able to use it without installing Gtk#, as long as you do
>>not use any of the other tools (showone.exe, showtwo.exe, autopanog.exe).
>>
>>
>>  If everything works well, and you all get it to work, then I will put up a
>>new release shortly.  Btw, as extra motivation ;), the attached executeables
>>also produce subpixel coordinates in the resulting PTO files.  Linux users can
>>also use the files without problems, but Mono's implementation of the
>>System.Drawing namespace is still ugly, which leads to bad scaling of images,
>>so only replace autopano.exe, not generatekeys.exe.
>>
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>Sebastian
>>
>>
>>
>
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