Crop + Autofill option

I was taking a look at free stitching software on the internet for a friend and as expected none of them is anywhere near as sophisticated as APP/APG (Kolor will be pleased to hear !)
However, I noticed one fancy facility available in Microsoft ICE 2.0.3 which is not in APP/APG and that is the facility to autofill missing areas where the top and bottom of pano images has slipped from the horizontal
Many of my panos are opportunistic street and rooftop scenes taken handheld and single row (usually about 12 portrait images for a 360 pano) but it is not uncommon to slip off the horizontal especially when the horizon has pronounced features such as steep mountains or tall buildings. In this case it is common to end up with missing areas of sky
The Microsoft ICE auto complete (part of crop) did a good job on sky when I looked at an example of mine. It also tries to fill any other missing areas but this is way beyond its ability and basically does not work at all well on detailed portions
How east would it be to put this into APP/APG as an option. I wouldn't expect the detailed portions to work any better tan for ICE but they can be cropped out again or corrected at a later time
I have got an example of how ICE treats missing sky below and you can see it is quite effective
Martin
However, I noticed one fancy facility available in Microsoft ICE 2.0.3 which is not in APP/APG and that is the facility to autofill missing areas where the top and bottom of pano images has slipped from the horizontal
Many of my panos are opportunistic street and rooftop scenes taken handheld and single row (usually about 12 portrait images for a 360 pano) but it is not uncommon to slip off the horizontal especially when the horizon has pronounced features such as steep mountains or tall buildings. In this case it is common to end up with missing areas of sky
The Microsoft ICE auto complete (part of crop) did a good job on sky when I looked at an example of mine. It also tries to fill any other missing areas but this is way beyond its ability and basically does not work at all well on detailed portions
How east would it be to put this into APP/APG as an option. I wouldn't expect the detailed portions to work any better tan for ICE but they can be cropped out again or corrected at a later time
I have got an example of how ICE treats missing sky below and you can see it is quite effective
Martin