Here are screen shots from example project that is included to Panorama
tools.
Problems with ImageMagick? One screen shot for settings. Optimize window example. Control point setting window Options window
Automatic(?) finetune.
Create project
Files-tab is like below when you have imported example sctipt that came
with PanoTools.zip.
Program text explanations: Image files
Filename is the name of the source image file :)
Width is image width and height is height of source image.
'rot' is rotation angle of image. It can be 0, 90, -90 or 180 degrees.
Rotate image in control points -tab if your image needs to be rotated.
Preview image will be in original angle.
File operations
Add: open image(s) for project.
Remove: delete selected image from project
Up: move selected image up in image list
Down: move selected image down in image list
Export project [This function might not yet
have much general use.] Scale whole project. Value is factor which is used for scaling
dimensions
Changes control point values to integer if integer box is selected.
Edit project
You can edit text file and set such features that are not yet supported
by GUI or just make check.
Control point setting
Control points -tab look like below. Main images are not zoomed (shown
1:1 -> 100%). High lighted control point is first (nr 0). It is
magnified 6 times (zoom by: 6). Normally it's enough to have two or
three points per image pair. If you are going to define (/optimize)
multiple parameters, you will need more points and it's good to not have
nodal point set correctly (wrong nodal point makes parallax error).
Used interpolation in this example image was sinc with matrix size 8x8
(64 pixels). Resolution 200 means that values are calculated for 200
subpixel positions. 100 or 200 is OK (200 makes a bit bigger table to
keep in memory), no practical difference if value is more than 10.
Extra menu is got with mouse right click, eg. images can be rotated.
Options
Interpolation filter can be selected from options window.
New feature to version 0.8 is support for ImageMagick.
Check that options window shows that settings are OK. ImageMagick has
setup program and it sets enviroment variables (to registry). You may
check that same data is also read from DLL-files. Make sure that red and
blue marks have same contents. Options window is get by pressing
[F8]-button or Menu:Files/Preferences.
One bug corrected with this window. BCB4, VCL and one compiler
optimization setting made problem with AnsiString.
Control point finetune
You can search better position with finetune (ctrl-F or right mouse
click). Middle image is absolute difference of left and right image.
Black in that image meas that there is no difference. Default search
matrix is 18x18 pixels. This size part of image is tried to fit space
that is 18*1.35= 24.3 so new position can be +-3 pixels ( (24-18)/2=3 ).
The bigger the target image is (default 24x24) the more it takes time to
search position. Bigger zoom ratio makes also more calculation as actual
bitmap size is 24*6 x 24*6.
Result is here. Ratation search do not work now (when example was
made). Left image is rotated by hand and 19 degrees was good ->
images are in same angle. Rotated image was moved 0.67 pixels to left
and 0.17 pixels to down. X and Y have angle corrected new position for
left image. Image is quite black and fitting is OK. The value near
search button tells internal fitting factor.
Optimize settings
Here reference image is not set for this program. Image 0 is kept in
original position and so image 0 will be good to select as reference.
Normally there is no need to optimize Lens A and C as B is enough. In
same way d and e are normally left un optimized (you may link them to
first and optimize it only).
"Used control points" means that all images that have mark are used in
optimization. You may test how much result will be changed if you leave
one out as example.
