Microsoft Image Composite Editor v1.2 Released – Stitch your way to panorama photo happiness

Microsoft Research - Microsoft Image Composite Editor

File Name	SetupICE_x86_1.2.msi
Version	1.2
Date Published	26 November 2008
Download Size	2.9 MB

An application to stitch multiple source images into a seamless panorama.”

Microsoft Research - Image Composite Editor

“What is Image Composite Editor?

Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher. 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 formats, from common formats like JPEG and TIFF to multi-resolution tiled formats like HD View and Silverlight Deep Zoom.

Features

• State-of-the-art stitching algorithms automaticaly place source images and determine panorama type
• Advanced orientation adjustment view allows planar, cylindrical, and spherical projections
• Support for different types of camera motion
• Excellent exposure blending using Microsoft Research fast Poisson algorithm
• Automatic cropping to maximum image area
• No image size limitation - stitch gigapixel panoramas
• Native support for 64-bit operating systems such as 64-bit Vista
• Output in a wide variety of image formats:
  • HD View
  • Silverlight Deep Zoom
  • TIFF, JPEG, PNG, and more

Support

Microsoft Image Composite Editor is provided free of charge and without official support….

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This takes the current MS panorama tech adds some magic, gives you some knobs to tweak and the capability to export it into a number of different formats.

Using ICE, I quickly created this is about panorama. It is a 140 degree view from one of my walking routes; from on top of Mt McCoy, the Reagan Library around into Simi.

 

Note that like most MSR projects this has a non-commercial usage license clause in the EULA.