Image stitcher for panorama creation

[Fred Roller]

On 05/15/2013 12:47 PM, 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.
>
GIMP with this plug-in: http://stitchpanorama.sourceforge.net/ worked 
for me a while back.  Seemed to handle the merge well, but that was eons 
ago.. few years anyways.

Fred