Image Composite Editor is an advanced

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image stitcher made by the

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division of

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. The application takes a set of overlapping

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s of a scene shot from a single

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location and creates a high-resolution panorama incorporating all the source images at full resolution. The stitched panorama can be saved in a wide variety of

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s, from common formats like

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and

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to multi-resolution tiled formats like HD View and Deep Zoom, as well as allowing multi-resolution upload to the

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site. It can also be saved to a web page with a zoomable viewer using
third-party template
As of 2021 the program is no longer available for download from Microsoft though it can be found on various other sources such as Internet Archive.

Features

*Stitching algorithms automatically place source images and determine panorama type *Advanced orientation adjustment view allows planar, cylindrical, and spherical projections *Support for different types of

motion *Panorama stitching from video *Automatic lens

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removal *Automatic cropping to maximum image area *Optional automatic completion of missing image parts (helpful for sky, clouds, grass, gravel etc.) *No image size limitation stitch

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s *Constrained assembly of image sets taken on a known regular grid, e.g. with a Gigapan head *Native support for 64-bit operating systems *Support for exporting the results to HD View, Deep Zoom,

, PNG and layered Photoshop file formats *Panorama publishing to

However, Microsoft ICE currently does not provide any anti-ghosting mechanism, like other panorama stitching programmes do, e.g. the open source programme

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and various commercial applications.

References

External links

Version 2.0.3 (Archived)Microsoft Research ICE
{{Microsoft Research Panorama photography Windows-only freeware Image Composite Editor Free photo stitching software

Features

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