Microsoft updates its popular pano maker with auto complete, new projections and video support
Microsoft Research’s Interactive Visual Media Group has released an update to its highly regarded Image Composite Editor (ICE) application, which uses the company’s stitching technology to create seamless panoramas. New features in ICE 2 include image autocomplete, a more flexible user interface, a video-to-panorama feature and additional image projections. ICE isn’t designed as a classic consumer photo app, but rather as a platform from which Microsoft develops other products. For example ICE is used in the company’s Photosynth photo-stitching software and for Bing Maps. The app’s image completion functionality uses pattern recognition technology to fill gaps in a panorama that are a result of poorly framed…
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