pto_gen on Debian

[Emiliano Burgos]

Hello list,

I'm trying to use hugin on a raspberry pi. Installed hugin and found out that the pto_gen is missing. 

It seems I have three options:

• build from source, 
  
• binary package for ARM (same link as source)
  
• match-n-shift tool
  

Right now, building from source right now is not an option as I need to use the box and compiling would take a long time.

The wiki article also provides a binary package for ARM, which I tried to use but I did not manage to make it work. Could anyone point me in the right direction on how to use the provided files? I keep getting the following error:

pto_gen: error while loading shared libraries: libhuginbase.so.0.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

 

I also saw a reference to the match-n-shift tool in the Panotools:Script perl module, how would you use match-n-shift instead of pto_gen?

Thank you!

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

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Am 15.04.2015 um 16:49 schrieb Emiliano Burgos:
> Hello list, I'm trying to use hugin on a raspberry pi.

Just for fun or is there a use case behind that?

Just curious,
Gerhard


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[Terry Duell]

Hello Emiliano,

On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 00:49:12 +1000, Emiliano Burgos <burg...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello list,
> I'm trying to use hugin on a raspberry pi. Installed hugin and found out
> that the pto_gen is missing.

[snip]

>
>> pto_gen: error while loading shared libraries: libhuginbase.so.0.0:
>> cannot
>> open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> I also saw a reference

> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/hugin-ptx/pto_gen$20missing/hugin-ptx/D9XzqchEoE0/HKIKxtYJicQJ>

> to the match-n-shift tool in the Panotools:Script perl module, how would
> you use match-n-shift instead of pto_gen?

You would use it from the command line or in a script.
If you have installed the Panotools::Script tools you can get help on how
to use it by simply entering 'match-n-shift' at the command prompt.
Does that answer your question?

Cheers,
--
Regards,
Terry Duell

[Andreas Metzler]

Emiliano Burgos <burg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to use hugin on a raspberry pi. Installed hugin and found out
> that the pto_gen is missing.

[...]

Hello,
It is shipped as part of all Debian hugin packages that are based on
new enough hugin version to actually include it. You'll find it in
hugin-tools for Debian unstable, testing (soon to be next stable
release) and stable-backports.

cu Andreas
--
`What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are
so grateful to you.'
`I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'

[Emiliano Burgos]

I ended up using the perl scripts, and using match-n-shift was pretty straight forward. For what I needed was pretty much a one to one mapping.

I am using a raspberry pi to capture multiple images and making a panorama from those images. The camera module is mounted on a servo motor, there is a web interface from which you can trigger a command that will position the servo at different angles and take a snapshot. After the sequence is done the images are stitched into a panorama and uploaded to the web UI.

It's a proof of concept, and the resulting images are exceptionally good. However, the raspberry pi lacks stamina and making the pano takes up to 5 minutes. For the concrete use case 5 min is too much latency, so next I will try a nuc instead of the pi.