[OSGeo-Discuss] looking for OS softwre to stitch aerial photos automatically

[Alex Mandel]

I've been using Hugin in an attempt to do this process. While the
control point generation works out ok (note there are some licensing
restrictions due to patents in all the current algorithms) the stitching
never comes out quite right because of hugin's insistence on warping to
a projection that assumes a camera mounted on a stationary tripod.

In discussions with some of the OSSIM team, they are interested in this
area but the current app does not do this. Other options that have come
up are OpenCv and Nasa Image Workbench but both of these are programming
libraries and would require c/c++ coding.

It would be great to collaborate on getting this implemented in an OSGeo
project. I know several researchers with a need for a tool that does this.

Thanks,
Alex


Tim Waters wrote:
> I'm aware of some semi-automatic stitching of areal imagery using
> Hugin http://hugin.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Jeff has used it with video frames from a camera attached to a  kite:
> http://unterbahn.com/2010/01/kite-video-generation-of-aerial-imagery/
> 
> And I'm very interested in using Hugin and other Panorama stiching
> tools to help make cheap aerial imagery as one of the stages within
> MapWarper.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tim
> http://thinkwhere.wordpress.com
> 
> 
> 
> 2010/1/22 Marco Lechner - FOSSGIS e.V. <marco.lechner at fossgis.de>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> does anybody know a open source tool to stitch a bunch of aerial
>> photographs automatically by detecting similar pixelareas?
>> I know that GRASS is pretty good in processing images, but I there's no
>> funtion to patch a bunch of aerial photos by detecting similarities in
>> overlapping areas, I guess.
>> Hopefully, I'm wrong.
>>
>> Marco
>>
>> --