Linear Stack Alignment With SIFT - missing low level API - quote request

Posted by David Pirotte on Dec 01, 2015; 5:07pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/kawa-script-using-mpicbg-1-0-2-jar-ERROR-tp5014635p5015068.html

Hello,

Can anyone interested, including the original author of course, please send me a
[reasonable] quote to patch the existing mpicbg library so it would have a public
method, _not_ depending on UI, which would receive 2 args and return a new stack
with the aligned images:

        LinearStackAlignmentWithSIFT
                        stack
                        paramstring

        -> which returns a new stack with the aligned images

Many thanks,
David

(a) The actual implementation of/for "Linear Stack Alignment With SIFT" is missing a
proper separation between the low level functionality and the GUI [it requires the
stack of images to be aligned to be displayed on the screen and otherwise fails with
the exception "No images open"];

(b) It is anyway unusable(*), from scheme I mean, and probably any host languages,
because not only does it not return the new stack as a value, but for some
mysterious reason(s), it does not display the new stack, so I currently have no way
to 'grab' it.  Here is a session fr the curious...:

       
        #|kawa:12|# (ij-run "Linear Stack Alignment with SIFT"
                    "initial_gaussian_blur=1.60 steps_per_scale_octave=3 minimum_image_size=64 maximum_image_size=1024 feature_descriptor_size=4 feature_descriptor_orientation_bins=8 closest/next_closest_ratio=0.92 maximal_alignment_error=25 inlier_ratio=0.05 expected_transformation=Translation interpolate")
        #|(---:13|# Processing SIFT ...
         took 3216ms.
        2954 features extracted.
        Processing SIFT ...
         took 1562ms.
        2395 features extracted.
        identifying correspondences using brute force ... took 1160ms
        519 potentially corresponding features identified
        Done.
-> #!null
        #|kawa:14|#

^^ Since the UI 'run' functionality does not return a value and since the aligned images
^^ stack is not displayed on the screen, I can't get access and save the results.


(*) unfortunately because I would use it 'as is' in the mean time, despite
        for scripting but acceptable until solved ...

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