Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher made by the

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division of

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. The application takes a set of overlapping

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s of a scene shot from a single

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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

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s, from common formats like

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and

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to multi-resolution tiled formats like HD View and

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, 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
third-party template
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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

motion *Panorama stitching from video * Exposure blending using Microsoft Research fast Poisson algorithm *Automatic lens

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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 - stitch

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s *Constrained assembly of image sets taken on a known regular grid, e.g. with a

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head *Native support for 64-bit operating systems *Support for exporting the results to HD View,

, 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

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and various commercial applications.

References

External links

Microsoft Research ICEWindows Live Photo and Video Blog - Official Windows Live Photo Gallery team blog
{{Microsoft Research Windows-only freeware Photo software Photo stitching software Panorama photography Image Composite Editor Free photo stitching software

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