Naouel's homepage is at http://aorlinsk2.free.fr/panomatic/
He also has windows binaries there and you can also find the source there. Maybe if you get in direct contact with him you might get your answers. Harry 2009/11/21 Nicolas Pelletier <nicolas.pellet...@gmail.com> > Hi, > > Many questions about panomatic (btw, still targetting to setup and help on > windows, but this itched a little more) > > First, is there a reason that the panomatic project on SF has files but no > source? > > Second, if I don't want to get into trouble with patent... where is the > limit? > - Publishing the source? > - Contributing a new version? > - Uploading\encouraging people to use it? > > I'm asking because I was limited on the 32 bit version because of the > memory limit (only 1 or 2 thread running) so I recompiled a 64 bit version. > I'm all for sharing, but don't want any trouble. > > As I'm testing the result, I'm hitting one problem. My benchmarks are > running, but here is the preliminary: > DL version (binary for windows) runs a test in 350 seconds > Compiled 32 version (in release, fully optimized) runs the same test in 895 > seconds. > > This is baffling me. Anybody has any clue? Does the source actually match > what was used to build it? (I may have done a dumb mistake, worked on this > instead of sleeping... but I typically know what I'm doing with code...) > These results are king of killing the purpose of building a faster > version... If the original is still 2-3 times faster, tough to beat! > > Also, this is more technical, but here we go. > Panomatic seems to have 2 phases in the same way that Sift does; 1st find > control points. 2nd, match points between images and purge everything else. > In Panomatic, the 2nd phase is awfully long, taking over 90% of the > processing time. It seems that one major difference between sift and surf in > their classic impementation is that in sift, it is done single thread and in > one global run, while for surf, it is done per pair of images, multi thread. > The pair thing is killing me since I typically shoot 51 images per pano. > > Now, the question for the experts. Is that second phase the > same\similar\completely different between autopanoSIFT-c and Panomatic? > Could the second one be improved with the way the first one was coded? > > There you go. Hope this mail is not too long. > > nick > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. > A list of frequently asked questions is available at: > http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ > To post to this group, send email to hugin-ptx@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > hugin-ptx+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<hugin-ptx%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to hugin-ptx@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to hugin-ptx+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx
