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autopano-sift-C is available from the [[hugin]] project.
 
autopano-sift-C is available from the [[hugin]] project.
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== Installation on Mac OS X ==
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On Mac OS X, autopano-sift-c can be installed via [http://www.macports.org/ MacPorts]:
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$ sudo port install autopano-sift-c
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</pre>
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This may take some minutes to fetch and compile the required software. Once complete, the <tt>autopano-sift-c</tt> binary will be installed in <tt>/opt/local/bin</tt>.
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To get [[Hugin]] to use it, you may need to add this full path into the preferences:
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[[Image:Autopano-prefs.png]]
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Now you're ready to use the control point alignment assistant in Hugin. Load up your images, then hit the 'Align' button:
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:[[Image:Autopano-align.png]]
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At this point you'll either see a big fat error dialog, or if everything's working you'll see a dialog like this while autopano-sift-c does its thing. This may take a few minutes...
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[[Image:Autopano-searching.png]]
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When it's done, Hugin's panorama preview should show you something decent now!
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[[Image:Autopano-done.png|700px]]
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You'll probably still want to nudge some things or run the exposure optimizer, but this'll have saved a lot of time manually setting control points.
  
 
[[Category:Software:Platform:Linux]]
 
[[Category:Software:Platform:Linux]]

Revision as of 22:12, 8 June 2009

autopano-sift-C is a C port of the C# software autopano-sift. It is somewhat faster and doesn't require a C# runtime - Installing the mono C# runtime on OS X has proved to be problematic on some systems.

Additionally, autopano-sift-C has experimental modifications to perform feature identification in conformal image space, this helps with wide angle or fisheye Projection photographs.

autopano-sift-C is available from the hugin project.

Installation on Mac OS X

On Mac OS X, autopano-sift-c can be installed via MacPorts:

$ sudo port install autopano-sift-c

This may take some minutes to fetch and compile the required software. Once complete, the autopano-sift-c binary will be installed in /opt/local/bin.

To get Hugin to use it, you may need to add this full path into the preferences:

Autopano-prefs.png

Now you're ready to use the control point alignment assistant in Hugin. Load up your images, then hit the 'Align' button:

Autopano-align.png

At this point you'll either see a big fat error dialog, or if everything's working you'll see a dialog like this while autopano-sift-c does its thing. This may take a few minutes...

Autopano-searching.png

When it's done, Hugin's panorama preview should show you something decent now!

Autopano-done.png

You'll probably still want to nudge some things or run the exposure optimizer, but this'll have saved a lot of time manually setting control points.