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NAME

match-n-shift - generate a Hugin .pto project from a list of photos

SYNOPSIS

match-n-shift [options] --output project.pto image1 image2 [...]

Options:
 -o | --output name    Filename of created panorama project
 -i | --input name     Filename of CSV file specifying input images (optional, see below)
 -f | --projection     Panotools style input projection number. Use
                         0 for rectilinear (default), 2 for circular fisheye and
                         3 for full-frame fisheye images.  Note, this has to be
                         specified for fisheye lenses as this can't be determined
                         from EXIF metadata
 -v | --fov            Horizontal field of view in degrees, this value is
                         only used if FoV can't be determined from EXIF
                         metadata, defaults to 50
 -k | --selection      Crop selection boundary, eg -459,2459,-57,2861
 -l | --linkstacks     Hard link positions of stacked photos.
 -a | --align          Generate control points (default no).
 -h | --help           Outputs help documentation.

Deprecated options (have no effect when using cpfind):
 -s | --size number    Downsize images until width and height is
                         smaller than number, default 1600
 -p | --points number  Number of generated control points between,
                         each pair, default: 25
 -n | --noransac       No ransac detection, useful for fisheye images
 -r | --refine         Refine the found control points using the
                         original images, delete unrefinable.

DESCRIPTION

match-n-shift takes a list of image files and creates a hugin compatible project file (optionally containing control points linking the images together, though there are better ways of doing this).

As much information as possible is extracted from photo EXIF data. So photo orientation, exposure, angle of view and white balance will all be initialised if possible.

An optional input file can be chosen with the --input option, this can be a simple list of photo filenames, or full paths, one per line:

DSC_0001.JPG
DSC_0002.JPG
DSC_0003.JPG
DSC_0004.JPG

..or a CSV file specifying "filename, yaw, pitch, roll" (in degrees):

DSC_0001.JPG,0,20,90
DSC_0002.JPG,90,-20,90
DSC_0003.JPG,180,20,90
DSC_0004.JPG,-180,-20,90

..or optionally specify XYZ translation parameters as well:

DSC_0001.JPG, 0, 20, 0, 0.5, 0.0, 1.0
DSC_0002.JPG, 0, 20, 0, 1.4, 0.0, 1.0
DSC_0003.JPG, 0, 20, 0, 2.3, 0.0, 1.0
DSC_0004.JPG, 0, 20, 0, 3.2, 0.0, 1.0

If the roll field is ommitted then it will be set to zero or any value obtainable from EXIF data, similarly if the pitch field is ommitted then pitch will be set to zero. So this should also work:

DSC_0001.JPG,0
DSC_0002.JPG,90
DSC_0003.JPG,180
DSC_0004.JPG,-180

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

SEE ALSO

http://hugin.sourceforge.net/

AUTHOR

Bruno Postle - February 2008.