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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.

 

Download it today..

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