Autopano-sift-C - Revision history

Zarl: release version added

2010-05-10T09:08:36Z

release version added

Zarl: Patent No.

2009-12-03T21:37:20Z

Patent No.

Brion: Add some installation instructions for Mac OS X + Hugin, since this wasn't super obvious

2009-06-08T20:12:47Z

Add some installation instructions for Mac OS X + Hugin, since this wasn't super obvious

Bruno: basic page

2008-04-24T21:46:04Z

basic page

New page

'''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.

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-'''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.
+'''autopano-sift-C''' can be used to find control points in overlapping image pairs and 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 and can only be used within hugin as an optional installation due to patent issues: the use of the [[w:SIFT|Scale-invariant feature transform]] algorithm is restricted by US Patent 6,711,293, awarded March 23, 2004 to the University of British Columbia.
 == Installation on Mac OS X ==
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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.
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 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.
+autopano-sift-C is available from the [[hugin]] project and can only be used within hugin as an optional installation due to patent issues: the use of the [[w:SIFT|Scale-invariant feature transform]] algorithm is restricted by US Patent 6,711,293, awarded March 23, 2004 to the University of British Columbia.
 == Installation on Mac OS X ==

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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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		+	<pre>
		+	$ sudo port install autopano-sift-c
		+	</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:
		+
		+	:[[Image: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...
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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.

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