http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Spherical-autostitching-tp3689939p3689942.html
ImageJ. But first, I would give hugin a try:
sphere captured by a moving camera. The problem is basically the same
problem. TrakEM2 and TurboReg work with up to affine transformations
only. Here, after compensating for the lens, the transformation we're
> Hi Johan,
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> thanks for your comments! I will look into it. Only to further clarify the
> scope, it´s only a reconstruction of something similar to "surface
> texture".
>
> Image you have a collection of satellite images of the surface of the
> earth, taken from pretty distant, so that the image is neither flat, but
> the inclination of the surface relative to the point of view is
> significant, but it´s usually also not a full semisphere in view. What the
> problem would be, translated to this case, that you do not know where the
> individiual satellite image was taken, you only know the distance, which is
> usually fixed for a given sets of measurements, but in can be from any
> orientation around the globe.
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> Actually, it would be a 3D reconstruction, but in my cases the "texture" is
> small deviations from the exact sphere, so it acts like a "texture"
>
> Actually it already exists for cases where the poistion of the "images" is
> almost exactly known, you only do a fine tuning and some error compensation
> in what would be the "satellite camera",
> it´s calles "subaperture stitching interferometry", but IMHO nobody has
> till now tried this for unkown orientations around a full sphere.
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> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Joachim Wesner <
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> > Hi List,
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> > what is the status about (open) ImageJ plugins (or hints for algos) for
> > autostitching?
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> trackem2 should always be mentioned here. I think it only does translation
> and some warping (see site, haven't tried it yet).
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> then there is xuvtools but it was buggy when I tried it. they claim it to
> be
> better than Imaris at least.
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> > In my case, I would have the special problem that I want to stitch many
> > (even noisy!) images of a close full sphere surface (each image has only
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> > 1/4 of the full surfrace) at random orientations, i.e. even after
> > correction for the curvature it would not only be a translation but a
> > random orientation.
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> > Anybody "been there, done that"? Hints?
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> it's not obvious to me what you expect the output to look like. you want a
> volume out of this or just aligned images? microsoft research has their
> massive photo assembler which is the closest I recall to just aligning
> images in 3d.
>
> for volumes, well, there is the work on assembling SPIM images (rotated, a
> little translated) for zebra fish but this assumes you have quite a number
> of images. their algorithm requires that beads are placed a bit everywhere
> to find the position.
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> /Johan
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> > Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards
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> > Joachim
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