Comments on: Fun with Autostitch : Panoramic video http://stewartgreenhill.com/blog/2006/05/22/fun-with-autostitch-panoramic-video/ Stewart Greenhill's random thoughts and musing Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:20:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: geoff lillemon http://stewartgreenhill.com/blog/2006/05/22/fun-with-autostitch-panoramic-video/comment-page-4/#comment-9281 geoff lillemon Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:18:06 +0000 http://stewartgreenhill.com/blog/2006/05/22/fun-with-autostitch-panoramic-video/#comment-9281 this is really cool man, just what i was looking for, ive been doing some quadcamera autostitch on the iphone, as seen here, http://www.flickr.com/photos/oculart/3902894187/sizes/l/ and the next step was to bring this to video this is really cool man, just what i was looking for, ive been doing some quadcamera autostitch on the iphone, as seen here, http://www.flickr.com/photos/oculart/3902894187/sizes/l/ and the next step was to bring this to video

]]> By: Stewart http://stewartgreenhill.com/blog/2006/05/22/fun-with-autostitch-panoramic-video/comment-page-1/#comment-1082 Stewart Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:58:36 +0000 http://stewartgreenhill.com/blog/2006/05/22/fun-with-autostitch-panoramic-video/#comment-1082 Hi Ben, My code is now on-line. <a href="http://stewartgreenhill.com/blog/2008/07/22/a-batch-controller-for-autostitch/" rel="nofollow">Check here</a> for source and binaries. Hi Ben,

My code is now on-line. Check here for source and binaries.

]]> By: Ben http://stewartgreenhill.com/blog/2006/05/22/fun-with-autostitch-panoramic-video/comment-page-1/#comment-1001 Ben Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:26:57 +0000 http://stewartgreenhill.com/blog/2006/05/22/fun-with-autostitch-panoramic-video/#comment-1001 thanks, i am going to try to do this, it would be helpful to see your code when you get a chance to post. thanks, i am going to try to do this, it would be helpful to see your code when you get a chance to post.

]]> By: Stewart http://stewartgreenhill.com/blog/2006/05/22/fun-with-autostitch-panoramic-video/comment-page-1/#comment-986 Stewart Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:08:09 +0000 http://stewartgreenhill.com/blog/2006/05/22/fun-with-autostitch-panoramic-video/#comment-986 Hi Ben, The process is a little tricky, but I automated it as best I could given the constraints. I wrote some code to send a bunch of events to the controls in the AutoStitch GUI. Basically it does the same sequence you do when you operate it manually: File->Open in the Autostitch window, then insert a bunch of file names into the "Edit" control, then click "Open", then (optionally) wait for Autostitch to open the image and close the resulting window, then rename "pano.jpg" to something useful. So you can do a single stitch from the command line like this: <code> $ stitch.exe file1.jpg file2.jpg ... fileN.jpg</code> Or you can use a batch option which looks like this: <code> $ stitch.exe "frame%03d.jpg" 0 100 file1.jpg ... fileN.jpg</code> Which means: for frames M from 0 to 100, stitch "frameMMM.jpg" against file1.jpg ... fileN.jpg, copying output to "outMMM.jpg". This is basically the process I used to make the panoramic movie. If you have four cameras shooting the action, then you probably just want to stitch four images per frame which would be a simple mod. Or you can use another program to generate a sequence of single stitch commands. I ran the stitcher from a Java application, but you could use any app capable of launching a WIN32 command. The main limitation is that all of the images have to be in one directory, and Autostitch has to be first "pointed" to that directory (via a File->Open dialog). If you're interested I can dig out the binaries and source code for you. I was intending to post them anyway, but never got around to cleaning them up. Hi Ben,

The process is a little tricky, but I automated it as best I could given the constraints. I wrote some code to send a bunch of events to the controls in the AutoStitch GUI. Basically it does the same sequence you do when you operate it manually: File->Open in the Autostitch window, then insert a bunch of file names into the “Edit” control, then click “Open”, then (optionally) wait for Autostitch to open the image and close the resulting window, then rename “pano.jpg” to something useful. So you can do a single stitch from the command line like this:

$ stitch.exe file1.jpg file2.jpg ... fileN.jpg

Or you can use a batch option which looks like this:

$ stitch.exe "frame%03d.jpg" 0 100 file1.jpg ... fileN.jpg

Which means: for frames M from 0 to 100, stitch “frameMMM.jpg” against file1.jpg … fileN.jpg, copying output to “outMMM.jpg”. This is basically the process I used to make the panoramic movie.

If you have four cameras shooting the action, then you probably just want to stitch four images per frame which would be a simple mod. Or you can use another program to generate a sequence of single stitch commands. I ran the stitcher from a Java application, but you could use any app capable of launching a WIN32 command.

The main limitation is that all of the images have to be in one directory, and Autostitch has to be first “pointed” to that directory (via a File->Open dialog).

If you’re interested I can dig out the binaries and source code for you. I was intending to post them anyway, but never got around to cleaning them up.

]]> By: Ben http://stewartgreenhill.com/blog/2006/05/22/fun-with-autostitch-panoramic-video/comment-page-1/#comment-982 Ben Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:47:04 +0000 http://stewartgreenhill.com/blog/2006/05/22/fun-with-autostitch-panoramic-video/#comment-982 wow. nice. i have been trying to get autostitch in batch. i want to do a film shot with four cameras.... can you give anymore info on how you do this? thanks! wow. nice. i have been trying to get autostitch in batch. i want to do a film shot with four cameras…. can you give anymore info on how you do this? thanks!

]]> By: Stewart http://stewartgreenhill.com/blog/2006/05/22/fun-with-autostitch-panoramic-video/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Stewart Tue, 21 Aug 2007 03:28:13 +0000 http://stewartgreenhill.com/blog/2006/05/22/fun-with-autostitch-panoramic-video/#comment-28 Kathryn, I asked the dinosaur but she wouldn't do it. Kathryn, I asked the dinosaur but she wouldn’t do it.

]]> By: Kathryn Greenhill http://stewartgreenhill.com/blog/2006/05/22/fun-with-autostitch-panoramic-video/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Kathryn Greenhill Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:40:44 +0000 http://stewartgreenhill.com/blog/2006/05/22/fun-with-autostitch-panoramic-video/#comment-27 What cute children, but why do you let them run all over the furniture like that? What cute children, but why do you let them run all over the furniture like that?

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