Autostitch
Encyclopedia
AutoStitch is a proprietary image stitching
software tool for creating panorama
s. It was developed by Matthew Brown and David G. Lowe
of the University of British Columbia
.
The software uses methods known as SIFT
and RANSAC
. This program differs from some other image stitching
software in that it automatically stitches together even unaligned or zoomed photographs seamlessly without user input, whereas others often require the user to highlight matching areas for the photographs to merge properly. The only requirement is that all photographs be taken from a single point.
Other software such as Hugin
have recently added the ability to stitch images without user input as well.
Image stitching
Image stitching or photo stitching is the process of combining multiple photographic images with overlapping fields of view to produce a segmented panorama or high-resolution image. Commonly performed through the use of computer software, most approaches to image stitching require nearly exact...
software tool for creating panorama
Panorama
A panorama is any wide-angle view or representation of a physical space, whether in painting, drawing, photography, film/video, or a three-dimensional model....
s. It was developed by Matthew Brown and David G. Lowe
David G. Lowe
David G. Lowe is a Canadian computer scientist and a professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of British Columbia. Lowe is a researcher in computer vision, and is the patented author of the scale-invariant feature transform , one of the most popular algorithms in the detection...
of the University of British Columbia
University of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia is a public research university. UBC’s two main campuses are situated in Vancouver and in Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley...
.
The software uses methods known as SIFT
Scale-invariant feature transform
Scale-invariant feature transform is an algorithm in computer vision to detect and describe local features in images. The algorithm was published by David Lowe in 1999....
and RANSAC
RANSAC
RANSAC is an abbreviation for "RANdom SAmple Consensus". It is an iterative method to estimate parameters of a mathematical model from a set of observed data which contains outliers. It is a non-deterministic algorithm in the sense that it produces a reasonable result only with a certain...
. This program differs from some other image stitching
Image stitching
Image stitching or photo stitching is the process of combining multiple photographic images with overlapping fields of view to produce a segmented panorama or high-resolution image. Commonly performed through the use of computer software, most approaches to image stitching require nearly exact...
software in that it automatically stitches together even unaligned or zoomed photographs seamlessly without user input, whereas others often require the user to highlight matching areas for the photographs to merge properly. The only requirement is that all photographs be taken from a single point.
Other software such as Hugin
Hugin (software)
Hugin is a cross-platform open source panorama photo stitching and HDR merging program developed by Pablo d'Angelo and others. It is a GUI front-end for Helmut Dersch's Panorama Tools and Andrew Mihal's Enblend and Enfuse...
have recently added the ability to stitch images without user input as well.