Screenshot of Microsoft Image Composite Editor v1.3.5 on Windows 7 stitching an 88 megapixel panorama of a valley
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| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
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| Stable release | 2.0.3 / February 25, 2015 (2015-02-25) |
| Operating system | Windows XP (only up to version 1.4.4), Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.1 |
| Type | Image stitching |
| License | Freeware |
| Website | microsoft |
Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher made by the Microsoft Research[1] division of Microsoft Corporation.
The application takes a set of overlapping photographs of a scene shot from a single camera 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 file formats, from common formats like JPEG and TIFF to multi-resolution tiled formats like HD View and Deep Zoom, as well as allowing multi-resolution upload to the Microsoft Photosynth site. It can also be saved to a web page with a zoomable viewer using a third-party template. As of 2021 the program is no longer available for download from Microsoft[2] though it can be found on various other sources such as Internet Archive.[3]
However, Microsoft ICE currently does not provide any anti-ghosting mechanism, like other panorama stitching programmes do, e.g. the open source programme Hugin (software) and various commercial applications.
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