Andrew Moe EE576

This panorama was taken with the tripod mounted camera.
One nice feature of this location is that as the camera
pans, we see objects both close and far away, allowing comparison
of the effectiveness of the algorithms on objects at various distances.
Since the motion of nearby objects is greater from picture to picture, these
pictures often have slight ghosting. For the most part though, the books appear
to align well, but the human subjects moved slightly from one picture to the next.
We attempted to place ourselves in the pictures more than once, with ok results.

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This panorama was taken nearby in the library freehand in the
stitch-assist mode. While the stitch-assist allows for alignment along
the horizontal axis, it is somewhat harder to keep the camera vertically aligned
(at least, when most of the lines you're dealing with in the image are vertical)
Due to the smaller control over the translation from image to image, there is a lot
of ghosting in this panorama. It was also very difficult to keep the camera rotating
about the same axis, which probably has the greatest effect on the errors in the panorama.
Also, as I got to the end of the sequence, I improved at taking the pictures, so the quality
of the panorama also improves.

All pictures were shot with the Class camera, tag# CS30012928. The pictures were warped using
a focal length of 674.82258 pixels, and radial distortion coefficients of -.21528 and .30098.
LucasKanade was run with an estimated translation of 200,0 and 4 pyramid levels with 3 iterations each
Finally, the photos were blended with a blending window of 200 pixels.