will this (calibrate lens gui / detecting lines) work on source (rect / 
fish) images only? or also a final pano in equirect projection?

On Wednesday, May 18, 2011 9:03:59 PM UTC+2, T. Modes wrote:
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> On 18 Mai, 04:18, Tduell <tdu...@iinet.net.au> wrote: 
> > Hullo All, 
> > I have just committed a patch to the default branch which installs 
> > calibrate_lens_gui.desktop on Linux. It works OK here on my Fedora 
> > build. 
> > Any Linux users who want to try/test the lens calibration tool might 
> > want to grab the tip. 
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> Some hints for calibrate_lens_gui: It is based on lens_calibrate (Tims 
> GSoC project from 2008) 
> You need images with straight lines. 
> Load them, check the focal length, crop factor and lens type. Then try 
> to detect lines. If lines were found the should be painted as green 
> lines in the preview (Black lines are invalid lines.) If no lines were 
> found try to change the parameters: In my test the most critical 
> parameters is minimum line length: this is the minimum length a line 
> must have to be detected as line. Is is given in the fraction to the 
> image width (So try with smaller values 0.1 or 0.05) 
> The edge detection scale and thresold influence how the edges are 
> detected. You can switch the preview to Edge detection to see the 
> direct influence (need to press find lines again). 
> If enough lines are found you can optimize the lens parameters. After 
> it switch the preview to corrected and check is the result is correct. 
> If so save the lens parameters to a file. 
>
> Thomas 
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> PS: What should be happen with the original calibrate_lens? 
> I'm for removing it: First calibrate_lens is using it's own lens model 
> which is not compatible with libpanos model. So the output does not 
> help any user to correct an image (In several mails I asked for a 
> explanation of the parmeters but nobody could explain it.) Second the 
> source code is ugly: mixing global variable with local variables. So 
> it is complicate to reuse the code or fix bugs. The main parts I 
> refactored into an own lib (huginlines) from where they can now easily 
> used. Also it pulls in several dependcies which are not used in the 
> current state (They are only used when activated some deactivated 
> code). Removing calibrate_lens would also allow to remove ANN from src/ 
> foreign. 
> What's your opinion? Has somebody used calibrate_lens and vote for 
> keep it?

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