Topic: How to use geometry vs. feature based control points?
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Bruno Postle <[email protected]> Feb 17 08:46PM ^ <#digest_top>
On Thu 17-Feb-2011 at 13:57 -0500, Bill Sherman wrote:
>my images is known from the mechanized capture process, I would
>like to be able to resort to this knowledge when no feature matches
>can be found.
The answer at the moment is that you need to manually place the
featureless photos, either by dragging them in the Fast Preview
window or by typing in the estimated positions in the Images tab.
Okay, well any solution at the moment will be a good place for me to
start. So let me ask a couple followup questions:
1) I'm having trouble with the Move/Drag portion of the Preview (actually,
to tell the truth, much of how to use the Preview window is a
mystery to me). I just reran Hugin, using my sample images, and
then go to the Move/Drag operation. At this point, I can move
some of the images independently, but some stay stuck together -- and
I want to move one relative to the others.
2) What units are the X, Y, & Z values under the "Image Orientation"
label in the Image tab? Are they percentages? And is there a way
to "lock" them? (or is the way to lock them simply to delete any
control points that get generated for that image?)
3) I noticed an image referred to in a post from yesterday an "Overview"
sub window for the preview, but I do not see that in my version. Will
this be in the next release? Will there be a new release soon? Here's
the picture:
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/36383814@N00/5451289889
We have discussed writing some tool that automatically
interpolates/extrapolates the positions of unconnected photos, but
this doesn't exist yet.
Alternatively if your panorama robot writes a log file then this
could potentially be used to automate the creation of a .pto
project.
The robot device does not directly communicate with any computer, so
there is no log. However, it reports on the screen the angle between
shots, so I could easily provide command line arguments of the MxN
array, with both horizontal and vertical movement angles.
And I'd be happy to help figure out the best procedure for this.
Slightly related: papywizard <http://www.papywizard.org/> is nice
control software for robot heads - If somebody is using this and
sends me a papywizard log file, I'll try and write a converter to
generate a Hugin .pto project file.
If you can set me on the right course, I could potentially write a .pto
generator myself -- though a template would be helpful. A first question:
would I create control points, or are the image locations stored in
the .pto file? What documentation should I read first?
Bruno
Thank you for the help,
Bill
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