Image Composite Editor Released

By John OBrien on September 23, 2008 10:54 AM

3 comments

ICE, a technology behind Windows Live Photo Gallery advanced panoramic image stitching was released today. You can download the x86 here and the x64 here.

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We have seen this technology in Windows Live Photo Gallery for some time now and more recently inside Deep Zoom Composer for Silverlight.

Matt Uyttendaele has the lowdown announcing this as the best image stitching tool shipped to date:

A GPU accelerated orientation adjustment tool. Sometimes the automatic stitching software doesn’t quite get the viewing direction correct, or perhaps you want to use a rectilinear projection instead of a cylindrical projection. This new tool allows you to interactively make these adjustments.

360 blending support. Our fast poisson blend technique now creates a seamless 360 blend.

Output to Photoshop layers.

Create an HD View web page.

Create a Silverlight Deep Zoom web page, including new 360 support in our Silverlight application.

Integration with both the Windows Shell and the next version of Windows Live Photo Gallery, so that you can quickly launch a new stitching project.

I fired up a 360 degree panorama in Vista64 and found the new application very fast and accurate. Take it for a spin yourself! Bonus points for the person that works out how to enable the “new 360 support in our Silverlight application”

Posted in News | Tags: Deep Zoom, Photo Gallery

Comments

http://www.liveside.net/members/John-OBrien/default.aspx John OBrien

The HDView team answered the 360 silverlight issue:

If the pano is a 360, then our Silverlight code will do a continuous scroll in the horizontal direction. If you aren’t seeing this behavior then please have a quick look in the generated html. There should be a script block with the following elements:

thetaMin=”0″
thetaMax=”360″

It turns out I had “auto-cropped” the image and these settting were slightly off, just update to 0 and 360 an your good to go :)
http://www.liveside.net/members/BTNH-Fan/default.aspx BTNH Fan

Looks great, thanks for the news guys.
http://www.liveside.net/members/tophtucker/default.aspx tophtucker

Wait so is stiching removed from WLPG? Or does this complement and expand upon the built-in stitching?

Anyway, looks awesome. I’m liking this add-on thing…

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