Redmond Town Center and More!
Biliana Kaneva - CSEP 576 - Project 2 - Winter 2005
Below is the night panorama of Redmond Town Center taken with the tripod and Kaiden head.
With the tripod it was pleasure to take the panorama pictures and they all turned out reasonably well. The hand-held sequence was quite the challenge. I tried just taking it by hand but it was impossible to be consistent with the overlapping. Even using the auto-stitch mode, my hands were not quite stable. I took some really blurry pictures at Redmond Town Center. Finally, the next day I took some pictures of houses using autostitch. With a bit of tinkering with Lukas Kanade to get the right displacement, the panorama turned out ok except for the jagged black lines that resulted from the alignment.
I had some fun taking pictures at home and created a panorama with multiple copies of myself engaged in different activities. This one was tricky in that I had to make sure I don't overlap in two consecutive shots in different poses. There was also difference in exposure, I couldn't quite get rid of the light variations.
I was so excited about the panorama pictures and rushed to take a picture of the beautiful fountain at Microsoft Building 9 court. Only it was Saturday and to my extreme disappointment, the fountain was off. So here is a panorama picture with no fountain. :-( I was planning to cut it out from another picture and stitch it in the panorama - the magic of image processing :-). But unfortunately, I didn't have time to do it.
Below is the result of stitching together the four test images provided with the skeleton code.
