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Someone else made me aware of this last week. The HDView ouput of ICE is no longer working on Win7. We will investigate further to see if a fix can be provided. In the meantime two suggested work-arounds are: First - you can (1) use the Deep Zoom export, (2) open the generated html file, (3) find the <xml><root> …. </root> snippet, (4) store this as a separate xml file, and (5) point an hdview web page at this. Second - ICE stores all of the important pano info in a jpg exif
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Please see previous discussions on this - http://community.research.microsoft.com/forums/t/3497.aspx In short perspective view ceases to be available for stitched results that are greater than about 140 degrees field-of-view. There is no way to selectively crop just a portion of the perspective view. If the entire result doesn't fit in perspective then the program reverts to a different projection that does accomodate the field-of-view. The only work around at this point is to remove one of the
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The preview is generated at a lower (sometimes a lot lower) scale than the the 100% export. This is probably why you see the jagged lines in the 100% output and not in the preview. You won't be able to zoom in far enough to see them in the preview. In general our blending technique does not work very well on moving water. We simply try to compensate for differences across the seams by adjusting the exposure/color of the source images. When there is strong motion no amount of exposure compensation
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Hi Mike, You've hit an interesting "feature" of ICE. This is a known issue - with no work-around that I can think of. There is a step called seam selection which identifies the best place to cut between images. Most of the time, but not always, this step is independent of scale. We re-run seam selection during export and sometimes the answer is different due to the difference in scale. I realize that this makes the preview image a bit useless :( for these cases. If you really want to
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ICE doesn't have a manual or help page beyond what you see in this forum. I would suggest that you use the panoramic feature in Windows Live Photo Gallery http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/21719a31-42a4-4918-805c-fd66a570289c1033.mspx it produces equivalent results to ICE, is simpler to use, and has better tutorials
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There is a known issue on XP (not Vista or Win7) that ICE hangs between alignment and compositing and between compositing and displaying the result. As you suggest moving your mouse over the screen wakes the program up.
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This issue was reported a while back (here is one post I remember: http://community.research.microsoft.com/forums/t/2435.aspx ), so I don't think that it was caused by a recent update.
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I've answered this over on the HDView forum: http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/msrhdviewcontrol/thread/b81d31c9-78f9-40b5-8c23-06d9bf2aefe1 I'll also send the DZC team your feedback. Thanks.
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Your images contain a great deal of water and sky. ICE needs to latch onto stationary objects in the scene to determine how the camera moved from frame to frame. In your case ICE can’t do this because so much of the scene is in motion. There is an advanced-user suggestion here: http://community.research.microsoft.com/forums/p/2204/3468.aspx#3468 that may help, but it’s a lot more effort and I’m not too hopeful that it will work because so little of your scene is stationary.
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I think that this is an issue (or perhaps bug is a better word) with ICE. Under planar motion I think what happens is that parts of the result will have no loss in resolution, but that other parts are strecth/skewed to align and end up with a loss in resolution. The fix is for us to improve how the final panorama size is computed. I realize that it is difficult to experiment with an 800 image set, but one thing that may work is - double the resolution of all of the source images and use the same