Image Composite Editor
File:MicrosoftIce1.3.5.png Screenshot of Microsoft Image Composite Editor v1.3.5 on Windows 7 stitching an 88 megapixel panorama of a valley | |
Developer(s) | Microsoft |
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Stable release | 2.0.3
/ February 25, 2015 |
Operating system | Windows XP (only up to version 1.4.4), Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.1 |
Type | Image stitching |
License | Freeware |
Website | microsoft |
Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher made by the Microsoft Research division of Microsoft Corporation.
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 Deep Zoom, as well as allowing multi-resolution upload to the Microsoft Photosynth site. It can also be saved to a web page with a zoomable viewer using a third-party template. As of 2021 the program is no longer available for download from Microsoft though it can be found on various other sources.
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
- Panorama stitching from video
- Exposure blending using Microsoft Research fast Poisson algorithm
- Automatic lens vignette removal
- Automatic cropping to maximum image area
- Optional automatic completion of missing image parts (helpful for sky, clouds, grass, gravel etc.)
- No image size limitation - stitch Gigapixel images
- Constrained assembly of image sets taken on a known regular grid, e.g. with a Gigapan head
- Native support for 64-bit operating systems
- Support for exporting the results to HD View, Deep Zoom, TIFF, JPEG, PNG and layered Photoshop file formats
- Panorama publishing to Microsoft Photosynth
However, Microsoft ICE currently does not provide any anti-ghosting-mechanism, like other panorama stitching programmes do, e.g. the open source programme Hugin (software) and various commercial applications.
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