Image Composite Editor
{{Infobox software
| name = Image Composite Editor
| logo =
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| screenshot = MicrosoftIce1.3.5.png
| caption = Screenshot of Microsoft Image Composite Editor v1.3.5 on Windows 7 stitching an 88 megapixel panorama of a valley
| developer = Microsoft
| latest_release_version = 2.0.3
| latest_release_date = {{release_date|2015|02|25}}
| operating_system = Windows XP (only up to version 1.4.4), Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.1
| genre = Image stitching
| license = Freeware
| website = {{URL|microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/image-composite-editor/}}
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Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher made by the Microsoft Research{{Cite web |title=Image Composite Editor |url=https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/image-composite-editor/overview/ |access-date= |website=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 [https://zoomable.ca/create_from_desktop.html third-party template]. As of 2021 the program is no longer available for download from Microsoft{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Microsoft ICE - No Longer Available? have a Download?|url=https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4551999|access-date=|website=Micro Four Thirds Talk Forum: Digital Photography Review}} though it can be found on various other sources such as Internet Archive.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Microsoft's Image Composite Editor|url=https://archive.org/details/ICE2.0.3For64BitWindows|access-date=|website=Internet Archive}}
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
- 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 {{En dash}} 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.
File:Rom, Vatikan, Petersplatz (von der Kuppel des Petersdomes aus gesehen); Panorama 2.jpg from the Dome of St. Peter's Basilica. Taken with an Olympus Camedia C-7070 Wide Zoom, stitched using Microsoft Research Image Composite Editor v1.4.4.]]
See also
References
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External links
- [https://archive.org/details/ICE2.0.3For64BitWindows Version 2.0.3 (Archived)]
- [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ICE/ Microsoft Research ICE]
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