Hugin 2011.0.0

May 29st, 2011

Improved Built-in Control Points Generator:

• CPFind's detection ability has been significantly improved, especially for wide angle (> FOV 65°) images, fisheye images, and rotated images. Anecdotal evidence shows it to be more accurate than any other CP detector ever used with Hugin. A thorough, scientific comparison against other CP detectors is welcome. If you have well formed comparison results, please publish a link on the Hugin mailing list.

Improved Fast Preview:

• An Overview pane has been added to the Fast Preview window. Users can now interact with the panosphere like in a virtual reality viewer in real time and visualize all areas of the panorama with little distortion, including the zenith and nadir that are typically excessively distorted in the flat preview.
• It is now possible to drag individual images or arbitrary groups of images on the panosphere in the fast preview.
• A new gray point picker has been added for visual white balance correction.

Registration of Stereo Images:

• align_image_stack is commonly used for the alignment of slightly misaligned images, e.g. for creating a High Dynamic Range image from multiple exposures when the camera was hand held.
• It has been extended with additional functionality for the registration of stereo images.

Other Improvements:

• New Thoby projection modeling 10.5mm Nikkor fisheye lens.
• Improved support for some keyboard shortcuts.
• New Preferences: output file format (LDR only).
• This release has the usual bugfixes and adds minor features.

Libraries and Build Improvements:

• CMake 2.8 or newer is now required.
• Support has been added for gcc-4.6 compiler.
• Libpano13 needs to be at least 2.9.18.

Languages

• Many translations have been updated for this release.