AutoStitch
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| developer | Matthew Brown, David Lowe |
| operating system | Windows |
| category | Graphics software |
| License | proprietary |
| German speaking | No |
| autostitch.net | |
AutoStitch is graphics software for stitching . The program synthesizes panorama images from suitable individual images, especially from digital cameras .
It was developed by Matthew Brown and David G. Lowe from the Department for Computer Science at the University of British Columbia . Brown is now working on the same topic at Microsoft .
A demonstration version for Microsoft Windows is currently available that can also run under Wine . Other commercial products, some of which also run on Apple Macintosh and Linux , use AutoStitch (Autopano Pro, Serif PanoramaPlus, Calico).
Panoramas created with AutoStitch may be used and published privately and commercially freely and without a license fee, but a reference to the program must be made on publication.
The operating concept of the demo is purely technical; the standard parameters of the software can be changed numerically on a configuration page; a preview, online help or similar tools are missing. In the demo version, the program interface and the short documentation are only available in English.
The program can automatically generate panoramic images up to a viewing angle of 360 ° × 180 °. It can also process images taken at different vertical angles and different magnifications. In the demo version only a spherical projection is used.
In particular, the program determines characteristic structures in the various individual images using the SIFT algorithm for image recognition , which was developed by Lowe. The degree of correspondence and the image poses are calculated using the RANSAC algorithm .
literature
- Matthew Brown, David Lowe: Automatic Panoramic Image Stitching using Invariant Features. In: International Journal of Computer Vision . Volume 74, No. 1, August 2007 ( online ; PDF file; 3.7 MB)
