Panorama stitching from video – frame selection automation

[Michal Novotny]

Hello,

I’d like to stitch a panorama from a video, similar to this example:
https://deepnote.com/app/lchien1/Panoramic-Images-from-Video-71138a54-abfb-4867-b0cb-29e10bfc9978.
With Hugin the process is fairly straightforward: extract frames and run
the usual stitching workflow. The tricky part is the automatic selection
of suitable frames:

- Video panning speed is not always linear, so simply taking every Nth
frame is not ideal.
- For static scenes there may be too much overlap, but for dynamic
scenes (e.g. wavy sea) it might actually be better to include more frames.

Has anyone tackled this before? Do you have any tips, or perhaps a
script to automate the frame selection, so I don’t have to re-invent the
wheel?

Thanks in advance,
Michal