Hi all, I have taken some time in the last few days and continued my work on on a patent free control point detection algorithm, which I haven't had time to continue since I started it in March 2009.
I have taken panomatic as base, as it is a relatively clean code base (compared to the others), and implemented a new descriptor based on the geometric blur and DAISY papers. This is a relatively simplistic (and very cheap to compute) descriptor, and its probably not as powerful as the original SURF descriptor. I'm still using a small part of the SURF algorithm to estimate the orientation of the interest point, so it is not 100% patent free yet, but I hope to replace that part in the future. I have further modularized the panomatic source code and added a new program called keypoints, which can be use to compute the descriptors only (similar to generatekeys from autopano-sift). The main panomatic executable now also supports loading of these files instead of recomputing them based on the images. This is mainly useful for testing and some more advanced control point finding strategies. The code lives in a bzr repository on launchpad: https://code.launchpad.net/~pablo.dangelo/hugin/panomatic-lib See the README file on how to build and use it. It is not tested on many panos yet, and might or might not work. I'm interested in feedback to see how well it works with typical panos. Note that it can't properly handle fisheye images (like the original panomatic). It might be possible to use it with match-n-shift, but I haven't tried that yet. ciao Pablo -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx
