On 17 Dez., 15:52, Jeffrey Martin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Why can't any (known) software do automatic vertical line detection (and
> thus levelling) of images?

So you're quite specific about _vertical_ line detection. Line
detection per se isn't really a problem, and I think there's even
software in the hugin bundle that uses line detection (doesn't the
lens calibration tool do so?). The trouble is just - how would you
know that any given line in any image is vertical and not some other
orientation? So you either need to make preliminary assumptions (i.e.
images are roughly upright, lines within a certain angle range from
'up' are considered) - or, again, you need user input.
The current mechanism for levelling uses a statistical approach, but
doesn't really look at the images. You could look at it as some sort
of user input, though: the user would have tried to hold the camera
upright, and the statistics makes the best of it. Maybe if the current
mechanism was applied first and then detected lines were looked for
which were 'near assumed vertical' an automatic detection could be
attempted.

with regards
Kay

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