I'll contact him, but this is where I got the source and the win32 binary
for comparison.

nick

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Harry van der Wolf <[email protected]>wrote:

> Naouel's homepage is at http://aorlinsk2.free.fr/panomatic/
>
> He also has windows binaries there and you can also find the source there.
> Maybe if you get in direct contact with him you might get your answers.
>
> Harry
>
> 2009/11/21 Nicolas Pelletier <[email protected]>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Many questions about panomatic (btw, still targetting to setup and help on
>> windows, but this itched a little more)
>>
>> First, is there a reason that the panomatic project on SF has files but no
>> source?
>>
>> Second, if I don't want to get into trouble with patent... where is the
>> limit?
>> - Publishing the source?
>> - Contributing a new version?
>> - Uploading\encouraging people to use it?
>>
>> I'm asking because I was limited on the 32 bit version because of the
>> memory limit (only 1 or 2 thread running) so I recompiled a 64 bit version.
>> I'm all for sharing, but don't want any trouble.
>>
>> As I'm testing the result, I'm hitting one problem. My benchmarks are
>> running, but here is the preliminary:
>> DL version (binary for windows) runs a test in 350 seconds
>> Compiled 32 version (in release, fully optimized) runs the same test in
>> 895 seconds.
>>
>> This is baffling me. Anybody has any clue? Does the source actually match
>> what was used to build it? (I may have done a dumb mistake, worked on this
>> instead of sleeping... but I typically know what I'm doing with code...)
>> These results are king of killing the purpose of building a faster
>> version... If the original is still 2-3 times faster, tough to beat!
>>
>> Also, this is more technical, but here we go.
>> Panomatic seems to have 2 phases in the same way that Sift does; 1st find
>> control points. 2nd, match points between images and purge everything else.
>> In Panomatic, the 2nd phase is awfully long, taking over 90% of the
>> processing time. It seems that one major difference between sift and surf in
>> their classic impementation is that in sift, it is done single thread and in
>> one global run, while for surf, it is done per pair of images, multi thread.
>> The pair thing is killing me since I typically shoot 51 images per pano.
>>
>> Now, the question for the experts. Is that second phase the
>> same\similar\completely different between autopanoSIFT-c and Panomatic?
>> Could the second one be improved with the way the first one was coded?
>>
>> There you go. Hope this mail is not too long.
>>
>> nick
>>
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