Hugin

About

Hugin is an opensource graphical user interface (GUI) for Panorama tools.

Like other GUI front-ends, hugin provides an easy to use unified point-and-click interface to a whole range of other command-line tools including:

• autopano-sift or autopano for automatic creation of control points.
• nona or PTStitcher for remapping input images and rendering output images.
• enblend for seamless blending of output images.

The Hugin project's mission is not only to provide a powerful GUI, but also to provide opensource replacements for the small number of closed source components of Panorama tools, especially PTStitcher. A PTStitcher replacement, called nona has been developed, supporting its most important features.

Among the many flexible Hugin workflow options, it is possible to use increased tonal range data in a 16bit workflow with hugin or work entirely with high dynamic range images such as floating-point TIFF from start to finish in a HDR workflow with hugin.

User interface

• Hugin Main window
• Hugin Assistant tab
• Hugin Images tab
• Hugin Camera and Lens tab
• Hugin Crop tab
• Hugin Control Points tab
• Hugin Optimizer tab
• Hugin Exposure tab
• Hugin Stitcher tab
• Hugin Preferences
• Hugin Preview window
• Hugin Control Points table

Hugin components

The following tools are part of the hugin suite:

• hugin the gui front end.
• nona a command-line replacement for PTStitcher.
• fulla correction of barrel distortion, chromatic aberration and vignetting.
• nona_gui a version of nona with simple gui progress dialogs, similar to the windows version of PTStitcher.
• autooptimiser an experimental tool with the same interface as PTOptimizer except using pairwize optimization which doesn't require any manual pre-placement.
• align_image_stack a tool to automate the process to align a stack of photos.
• vig_optimize command line tool to estimate photometric parameters.
• zhang_undistort a tool for correcting barrel distortion.
• color_correct_tiff an experimental tool for correcting colour and brightness differences between overlapping images.
• panoglview OpenGL panorama viewer stored in sourceforge CVS alongside hugin which must be built separately.

More information, documentation and tutorials are available on the project website.

Links

• hugin homepage for Screenshots, Tutorials, Documentation and Links.
• hugin FAQ Frequently asked questions about hugin
• hugin sourceforge project for Downloads, Bug database and Feature requests.
• sourceforge SVN to browse the hugin sourcecode.

Supported Operating Systems

• Windows
• Linux and Unix
• Mac OS X