AutoStitch

AutoStitch is a graphic software for stitching. The program synthesized panoramic images from suitable single exposures among digital cameras.

It was developed by Matthew Brown and David G. Lowe, Department for Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. Brown now works at Microsoft on the same topic.

Currently, a demonstration version is available for Microsoft Windows, which can also run under Wine. Other commercial products that run partly on Apple Macintosh and Linux use AutoStitch ( Autopano Pro, Serif Panorama Plus, Calico ).

Created with AutoStitch panoramas may be used and published privately and commercially and without license fee, but with the publication will be made a reference to the program.

The operating concept of the demo is purely technically oriented, to a configuration page, the default parameters of the software can be changed numerically; preview, online help or similar instrument exists. In the demo version of the program interface and the short documentation are available in English only.

The program can automatically create panoramic images up to a viewing angle of 360 ° × 180 °. It can also process images that were created in different vertical angles and different magnifications. In the demo version a spherical projection is used only.

The program determines particular characteristic structures in the different individual images using the SIFT algorithm for image recognition, which was developed by Lowe. The degree of compliance and the image poses are calculated using the RANSAC algorithm.