Image stitcher for panorama creation

[Bill Davidsen]

Bill Davidsen wrote:
> I have some sets of images which are similar to a normal panomama, but are
> created when the camera is still and the subject moving past the lens. Examples
> include capturing street art, labels on (rotating) cylinders, etc. In every case
> the camera is in video mode, and the video is broken into a boatload of
> 1920x1080 images. I can reduce the fitting effort by cropping, but I really
> would like to find software to take a series of images and cope with the overlap.
>
> Naturally there is Windows software to do it, and a pair of jerks who say the
> Linux software is incapable. I have a few hundred of these videos, so "by-hand"
> is possible but doesn't scale well.
>
> Any suggestions? The man page for hugin lists dozens of command line tools, and
> I script netpbm commands, and have even written a few tools, but if there's a
> "best practice" solution I can at least start looking in the right place.
>
I will try hugin again, my previous attempts took a lot of manual effort, and I 
was hoping to trade CPU time for mine. In any case, input much appreciated.

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