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Image Composite Editor (ICE) is an advanced panoramic image stitcher created by the Microsoft Research Computational Photography Group. Given a set of overlapping photographs of a scene shot from a single camera location, the app creates high-resolution panoramas that seamlessly combine original images.

1. Autostitch easily lets you stitch many photos into a seamless panoramic image (photo courtesy of AutoStitch) AutoStitch is the perfect solution if you want a software that will do it all for you. It requires no user input to be able to sift through images, select ones that match up and then piece them together to create a panorama.
2. Is there a way to stitch photos together like was available in Live Gallery? Moved from: Windows Insider Program / Windows Insider Preview / Windows Update / PC.

Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramicimage stitcher made by the Microsoft Research division of Microsoft Corporation.

The application takes a set of overlapping photographs of a scene shot from a single camera location and creates a high-resolution panorama incorporating all the source images at full resolution. The stitched panorama can be saved in a wide variety of file formats, from common formats like JPEG and TIFF to multi-resolution tiled formats like HD View and Deep Zoom, as well as allowing multi-resolution upload to the Microsoft Photosynth site. It can also be saved to a web page with a zoomable viewer using a third-party template.

Features[edit]

• Stitching algorithms automatically place source images and determine panorama type
• Advanced orientation adjustment view allows planar, cylindrical, and spherical projections
• Support for different types of camera motion
• Panorama stitching from video
• Exposure blending using Microsoft Research fast Poisson algorithm
• Automatic lens vignette removal
• Automatic cropping to maximum image area
• Optional automatic completion of missing image parts (helpful for sky, clouds, grass, gravel etc.)
• No image size limitation - stitch Gigapixel images
• Constrained assembly of image sets taken on a known regular grid, e.g. with a Gigapan head
• Native support for 64-bit operating systems
• Support for exporting the results to HD View, Deep Zoom, TIFF, JPEG, PNG and layered Photoshop file formats
• Panorama publishing to Microsoft Photosynth

However, Microsoft ICE currently does not provide any anti-Ghosting-mechanism, like other panorama stitching programmes do, e.g. the open source programme Hugin (software) and various commercial applications.

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Microsoft Image Composition Editor

Microsoft Image Composition Editor, or MS ICE for short, is an automatic panorama stitching application from Microsoft Research. This software can stitch panoramas up to a 360° x 180° field-of-view. It reads JPEG images and a variety of other file formats. Through WIC it can support DNG and some RAW formats with a suitable codec installed. Output formats are extremely flexible and include JPEG, TIFF, BMP, PNG and HD Photo image formats, as well as Silverlight Deep Zoom and publication directly to the PhotoSynth website.

MS ICE is designed for performance and scalability. It can stitch panoramas and claims not to be limited by size. This software comes into two versions, unsurprisingly both are for Windows, one for 64-bit operating systems, the other for 32-bit ones. Snagit 2020 1 2. It applies a number of input corrections automatically, including lens vignetting and exposure blending. MS ICE uses 3D acceleration so a modern video card with accelerated drive is required for interactive features.

User Experience

Microsoft ICE is pleasantly easy to use. Its straight-forwards interface is contained within a single window. This software sheds a traditional menu-bar for a combined menu and toolbar. The most important item being File->New Panorama and variants, almost every other menu item is redundant with some UI element like the Crop and Orientation tools.

There is also a zoom-slider and fit-to-window button in the toolbar. This is the only part of the interface that does not work entirely well. The slider has set limits with a relative scale that depends on the initial size predicted for the panorama. When modifications are made which make the panorama bigger, such as changing projection type, there is no way to get the panorama to fit in the viewer anymore. The fit-to-window button actually sets the minimum zoom on the scale, so that does not help either.

Image Composite Editor (ICE) is an advanced panoramic image stitcher created by the Microsoft Research Computational Photography Group. Given a set of overlapping photographs of a scene shot from a single camera location, the app creates high-resolution panoramas that seamlessly combine original images.

1. Autostitch easily lets you stitch many photos into a seamless panoramic image (photo courtesy of AutoStitch) AutoStitch is the perfect solution if you want a software that will do it all for you. It requires no user input to be able to sift through images, select ones that match up and then piece them together to create a panorama.
2. Is there a way to stitch photos together like was available in Live Gallery? Moved from: Windows Insider Program / Windows Insider Preview / Windows Update / PC.

Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramicimage stitcher made by the Microsoft Research division of Microsoft Corporation.

The application takes a set of overlapping photographs of a scene shot from a single camera location and creates a high-resolution panorama incorporating all the source images at full resolution. The stitched panorama can be saved in a wide variety of file formats, from common formats like JPEG and TIFF to multi-resolution tiled formats like HD View and Deep Zoom, as well as allowing multi-resolution upload to the Microsoft Photosynth site. It can also be saved to a web page with a zoomable viewer using a third-party template.

Features[edit]

• Stitching algorithms automatically place source images and determine panorama type
• Advanced orientation adjustment view allows planar, cylindrical, and spherical projections
• Support for different types of camera motion
• Panorama stitching from video
• Exposure blending using Microsoft Research fast Poisson algorithm
• Automatic lens vignette removal
• Automatic cropping to maximum image area
• Optional automatic completion of missing image parts (helpful for sky, clouds, grass, gravel etc.)
• No image size limitation - stitch Gigapixel images
• Constrained assembly of image sets taken on a known regular grid, e.g. with a Gigapan head
• Native support for 64-bit operating systems
• Support for exporting the results to HD View, Deep Zoom, TIFF, JPEG, PNG and layered Photoshop file formats
• Panorama publishing to Microsoft Photosynth

However, Microsoft ICE currently does not provide any anti-Ghosting-mechanism, like other panorama stitching programmes do, e.g. the open source programme Hugin (software) and various commercial applications.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

Microsoft Image Composition Editor

Microsoft Image Composition Editor, or MS ICE for short, is an automatic panorama stitching application from Microsoft Research. This software can stitch panoramas up to a 360° x 180° field-of-view. It reads JPEG images and a variety of other file formats. Through WIC it can support DNG and some RAW formats with a suitable codec installed. Output formats are extremely flexible and include JPEG, TIFF, BMP, PNG and HD Photo image formats, as well as Silverlight Deep Zoom and publication directly to the PhotoSynth website.

MS ICE is designed for performance and scalability. It can stitch panoramas and claims not to be limited by size. This software comes into two versions, unsurprisingly both are for Windows, one for 64-bit operating systems, the other for 32-bit ones. Snagit 2020 1 2. It applies a number of input corrections automatically, including lens vignetting and exposure blending. MS ICE uses 3D acceleration so a modern video card with accelerated drive is required for interactive features.

User Experience

Microsoft ICE is pleasantly easy to use. Its straight-forwards interface is contained within a single window. This software sheds a traditional menu-bar for a combined menu and toolbar. The most important item being File->New Panorama and variants, almost every other menu item is redundant with some UI element like the Crop and Orientation tools.

There is also a zoom-slider and fit-to-window button in the toolbar. This is the only part of the interface that does not work entirely well. The slider has set limits with a relative scale that depends on the initial size predicted for the panorama. When modifications are made which make the panorama bigger, such as changing projection type, there is no way to get the panorama to fit in the viewer anymore. The fit-to-window button actually sets the minimum zoom on the scale, so that does not help either.

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There is a wide preview area which shows an approximation of the panorama in progress. In Crop mode, which is the default, an adjustable rectangular frame controls which section of the image will be rendered. Cropping can also be specified as pixels using entry fields lower in the interface.

The Orientation tool is quite powerful and highly interactive thanks to its 3D graphics implementations. This is really the nicest part of the MS ICE. Particularly, adjustments like these are extremely difficult to make without a real-time preview. While it is called Orientation, this tool can do much more:

• Select The Projection: This determine how images are stretched in relation to each other. Initially, MS ICE automatically guesses, but there are five options: Perspective, Cylinder (Horizontal), Cylinder (Vertical), Sphere (Horizontal) and Sphere (Vertical). The neat thing about doing this interactively is that you do not have to know what these are, just try some and pick the one that looks best to you.
• Move The Center: The center of the panorama can be moved horizontally and vertically. Horizontal adjustment is extremely useful for 360° views to adjust the composition for greater impact. Vertical adjustment is helpful to adjust the top and bottom boundaries of the panorama to facilitate cropping.
• Rotate The Center: Rotation controls which direction from the center is up. This lets you correct a slanted horizon in case there was a vertical drift while rotating the camera between shots.

Once changes are made in the Orientation tool, pressing the Apply button recomputes the preview since the interactive one is only approximate. To render the panorama, set options in the Export box right below the preview area and click the Export to disk button.This is the point where Microsoft ICE produces the final panorama.

Output Quality & Performance

MS ICE produces panoramas of reasonable quality with good preservation of sharpness throughout the frame. Seams are generally well blended. Compared to Autostitch, our baseline for comparison, MS ICE has a higher rate of failure when it comes to correctly stitching details across frames.

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Performance of Microsoft ICE is very good. For the 3 x 8 megapixels single-row panorama that took Autostitch 84s and Autopano Giga 40s, MS ICE took 28s, making it exactly 3 times faster than the baseline. Not only is it fast but it also manages memory much better than Autostitch. It managed to successfully stitch a 48 x 16 MP multi-row panorama. Microsoft claims it can stitch much bigger ones.

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Conclusion

Microsoft ICE has a highly interactive interface for creating and adjusting automatically-stitched panoramas. This makes it much easier to tweak how the panorama is projected than with most panorama software. Efficiency is a core part of MS ICE which can produce gigapixel images. For smaller panoramas, this software shows very good speed of operation at the expense of stitching quality. The blending algorithm is good but far from perfect as it produces visible discontinuities where other software succeed.

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Microsoft ICE is available free of charge from Microsoft Research for Non-Commercial Use only. While this software is Windows only, it has 32-bit and 64-bit native versions. Users of 64-bit operating systems with more than 2 GB of RAM should see a performance benefit from using the 64-bit version.

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