Hi Bruno On Jun 11, 4:17 am, Bruno Postle <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11 June 2010 02:34, Tom Sharpless <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > 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), > > Also reading and writing the .key XML files takes up a lot of the time. > > > could not place the zenith and nadir shots, and aligned the others > > badly, but with the right arrangement. > > The generatekeys/autopano pair doesn't deal well with fisheye images. > So this multi-row feature is currently only really suitable for narrow > field-of-view photos. > > > 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. > > It will, but the plan is to add fisheye support to Pablo's > libpanomatic tool rather than continue with the distribution problems > of autopano-sift-c. > > Do try it with a real multirow project. My experience with a 5x35 > 'gigapixel' project is that it just works, and although it isn't fast, > it scales linearly with the number of photos. > > In the past you proposed a binary memory-mapped format for temporary > .key files, this would improve the speed considerably.
Even plain text would be way faster. XML parsing takes a lot of bandwidth. > > Antoine Deleforge will hopefully tackle some of these issues with his > Summer of Code project. It would be a great help if you could follow > the progress and chip in where necessary. That is good news, and I will certainly try to help. -- Tom > > -- > 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
