CSE576: Project 2
Michael Cafarella
April 28, 2005
Introduction
This document contains information about my project 2 handin.
Description
I experimented with some variants of the hat function, but none seemed
to work as well as the standard linear one. The only variant I kept is that
I don't average pixels near an image's border with black pixels from the
neighboring image. Doing so creates an unpleasant fade-to-black vingette
look.
Also, I didn't always apply the panoramic-cutoff for the below images. The test
image is not a true panorama, so it looks lousy when I assume the leftmost and rightmost
images are copies of each other (and thus slice off more of the image than is necessary).
So while the submitted code and binary includes the true-panorama-stitch code, I include both
panoramic and non-panoramic versions of the "Test Image" case.
Panoramas
Test Image
The test image, without panoramic cropping
(click for high-rez): 
The test image, with panoramic cropping
(click for high-rez): 
The test image seems to have worked just fine.
Kaidan Image
Panoramic Kaiden-head image, taken in the Husky Den (click for high rez):
Click here for the panoramic view.
This worked really well!
Hand-held Image
Panoramic hand-held image, taken in the etc. store in the Husky Den (click
for high rez):
Click here for the panoramic view.
Ah, this didn't work so well. It seems like we had one very bad misalignment that seriously threw off the whole image. This one mistake throws off all the black borders, but most of the stitches worked pretty well.
April 28, 2005
