On Sunday 15 April 2007 22:51, Toby Haynes wrote: > Julien Michielsen wrote: > > It regularly so happens I'd like to merge/overlap two digital > > pictures. Gimp does have tools to fit two pictures by hand (take > > one picture as a layer, and turn and twist them till they fit > > almost perfectly). However, almost perfectly may not be good > > enough, and I wonder if a search proce- dure could be develloped > > to find margins of two pictures that almost perfectly overlap? > > What you want is a technique like the SIFT algorithm to identify > similar features in two images. I recommend the autopano-sift > tools: > > http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~nowozin/autopano-sift/ > > Also available is Autopano (which is a different program) > > http://autopano.kolor.com/ > > While you are looking at this, if you are interested in panoramas > or even just trying to make a larger image out of two overlapping > scans, you should also try Hugin > > http://hugin.sf.net/ > > These tools can be used together to streamline panorama generation > and can be used to create fabulous (and massive) wide-angle images. > > Cheers, > Toby Haynes > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
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