Bruno OK, now I see the (multirow/stacked) CP option.
I tried it out on an 8-shot fisheye spherical pano. It ran pretty slow (mainly because of the poor k-d tree implementation in autopano), could not place the zenith and nadir shots, and aligned the others badly, but with the right arrangement. The default alignment using APSCpp was a little faster and produced a fully connected but even worse aligned pano. PTGui generated a perfectly aligned pano in about 1/5 the time of either Hugin method. So we still have a way to go. Perhaps it is not fair to test a 'multirow' algorithm on an image set with one 'row' and two 'caps'. But a practical 'grid' method ought to handle spherical arrangements as well. Cheers, Tom Is this implemented within hugin or as an external command or script? Regards, Tom On Jun 10, 5:58 pm, Bruno Postle <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu 10-Jun-2010 at 13:35 -0700, Tom Sharpless wrote: > > > > >This 'multirow' option sounds like a big step in the right direction. > >But perhaps it needs better publicity. > > It needs testing and the wiki needs to be updated too. > > >I'm looking at a pretty recent Hugin build ( 2010.1.0.5063 ) and can't > >see anything that looks like a "multirow panorama option". Should I? > > In Preferences -> Control Point Detectors there should be an > 'Autopano-SIFT-C (multirow/stacked)' option, if not then you might > have to 'Load Defaults'. > > This is pre-configured to use generatekeys/autopano as a two-step > detector, and align_image_stack for stacks. You can change it to > autopano-sift-c or panomatic as a one-step detector, but this is > less efficient since features will be classified multiple times. > > You should also be able to change it use a different two-step > detector such as Pablo's libpanomatic (untested). > > How it works is by using various strategies to match just the > subsets of the photos that are extremely likely to overlap, then > merging the resulting projects. It doesn't require any user input, > you get very few 'bad' connections, it scales to any size of > project, and it supports real-world shooting situations: > > - Zig-zagging rows (left-to-right, then right-to-left, etc...). > - Rows with different numbers of photos in each. > - Odd row ordering (middle-row, top-row, then bottom-row etc...). > > The 'prealigned panorama' option is related, but available as a > separate type of control-point generator. > > -- > Bruno -- 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
