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AUTOPANO-SIFT(7)		    Overview			AUTOPANO-SIFT(7)

NAME
     autopano-sift - Automatic panorama stitching package

INTRODUCTION
     The  autopano-sift  package contains a number programs to ease the creation
     of panoramic images. A tedious task in panoramic image creation  from  many
     individual  images is the aligning of the images so they fit together. This
     is normally done by using	control  points  which	give  information  about
     shared  image features. For example, image two images of a church. Lets as-
     sume both images overlap so that the rooftop of the church  is  visible  in
     both.  By	telling a panorama software that the roof is in both images at a
     specific position the images can be aligned. At least three  control  point
     pairs between every two images are required usually.

     The  manual work of creating this control points can be immense. Especially
     for panorama images holding more than one line of images there  is  a  huge
     number of possible overlaps.

     The  autopano-sift  package can automatically create control point pairs by
     using a combination of sophisticated algorithms and models. For  most  fea-
     ture-rich	images	it works very well, often outperforming humans in cover-
     age, precision and speed.

     In the following, the individual utilities are introduced. If  you  want  a
     quick start, try the autopanog(1) GUI frontend.

DESCRIPTION
     autopanog The GTK# GUI frontend for generating and matching SIFT keypoints.
     As  a  user  wanting  to  stitch panorama images, this is all you will ever
     need. See autopanog(1)

     autopano The keypoint matching program. It can take SIFT keypoint files  as
     input and produce PTO output files. See autopano(1)

     generatekeys The SIFT keypoint extraction program. Takes an image from you,
     and  gives  keypoints  back.  Optionally can downscale the image to a given
     resolution, so your memory size is cared for. See generatekeys(1)

     showone Show the SIFT keypoints overlayed over the source	image.	Use  in-
     cludes debugging and tuning of SIFT parameters and to get an impression how
     well spread the keypoints are. See showone(1)

     showtwo  Do simplistic matching of SIFT keypoints between two images, with-
     out geometric model. Use includes representing  general  matching	quality.
     Optionally  filter  only  a  given  number  of "best" keypoint matches. See
     showtwo(1)

BUGS
     If you find any bugs in the programs, please mail the author.

AUTHOR
     Sebastian Nowozin <nowozin at cs dot tu dash berlin dot de>

SEE ALSO
     autopano(1), autopanog(1), generatekeys(1), showone(1), showtwo(1)

autopano-sift			    MAY 2004			AUTOPANO-SIFT(7)

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