Image Composite Editor
| File:Ms ice v1.2.PNG Screenshot of Microsoft Image Composite Editor v1.2 on Windows 7 | |
| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 1.2r1
/ November 26, 2008 |
| Operating system | Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 |
| Type | Image stitching |
| License | Proprietary freeware, non-commercial use only |
| Website | Microsoft Research |
Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image sticher made by the Microsoft Research division of Microsoft Corporation.[1]
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 Silverlight DeepZoom.
Features
- 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
- Excellent exposure blending using Microsoft Research fast Poisson algorithm
- Automatic cropping to maximum image area
- No image size limitation - stitch Gigapixel image's
- Native support for 64-bit operating systems such as 64-bit Vista
- Output in a wide variety of image formats:
See also
References
- ^ http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ICE/ Microsoft Research Image Composite Editor