Microsoft Research Releases ICE-Panorama Tool for DeepZoom
What is ICE? (Image Composition Editor)
ICE is an advanced panoramic image stitcher. You shoot a set of overlapping photographs of a scene from a single location, and ICE creates a high-resolution panorama incorporating all your images at full resolution. Then save your stitched panorama in a wide variety of formats, from common formats like JPEG and TIFF to multi-resolution tiled formats like Silverlight Deep Zoom.

The license is for non-commercial use only, but very fun to play with.. Worth a look if you have a project that brings together diverse imagery.
ICE Features:
- State-of-the-art stitching algorithms
- Advanced orientation adjustment view
- Exposure blending
- Output in many formats:
- HD View
- Silverlight Deep Zoom
- TIFF, JPEG, PNG, and more
- A GPU accelerated orientation adjustment tool. Sometimes the automatic stitching software doesn't quite get the viewing direction correct, this tool allows you to interactively make adjustments.
- 360 blending support. A fast poisson blend technique now creates a seamless 360 blend.
- Output to Photoshop layers.
- Create an HD View web page.
- Create a Silverlight Deep Zoom web page, including new 360 support in our Silverlight application.
- Integration with both the Windows Shell and the next version of Windows Live Photo Gallery, so that you can quickly launch a new stitching project.
- Great x64 Support for quickly addressing large memory consumption images.



