Microsoft Image Composite Editor Download 64-bit

[Melanie Wendelberger]

WhenI try to download any version of Image Composite Editor I get a 404 error. I'm trying to access it from the following link: -us/research/product/computational-photography-applications/image-composite-editor Where else can I download this software?

After I checked on public Image Composite Editor 2.0 website, it is really unable to download it at the existing states. Not sure if it is caused by download link removed or server issue. Also the related forum on Microsoft for Image Composite Editor is closed, and I didn't found any new forum for Image Composite Editor on Internet.

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I stumbled upon this software from Microsoft; it is called Image Composite Editor, or ICE. I think they started with the acronym and then made up the full name since it is an awkward name. But, as awkward as the name may be, the software itself is quite capable. Let me start with a simple example. (It is no longer available as of 2022.)

The result is the stitched and cropped file you see on the left. Not too shabby! Then I wondered if I could record a multi-row video to get a bigger angle of view and took the video from the rear window starting on an imaginary top-left corner and panning slowly to the right, then down a little and moving to the left and so on.

This software has another ace in its sleeve. If you record a video with a moving object, then it can render the moving object in multiple positions in the resulting composite image. To test this, we went to Salter Grove with Jim to see if we could find some landing birds.

Not finding any, I volunteered to record Jim who in turn volunteered to run across a short path! Jim knew a skateboard park and thought there may be some people doing stunts. We drove to the park and watched a couple of guys do their thing. They were either just starting or trying to learn new moves, but they provided perfectly good test subjects. I recorded multiple videos and we returned home.

When we returned home, I again dragged and dropped the video file on ICE and let it stitch. Using its internal judgment it picked some positions of Jim on the flight path. Here is the first attempt at creating this type of stitched panorama.

This part requires some thinking and planning since overlapping selections may result in ghost images, especially if you want to include the subject on the return path as well. After a few tries I was able to get the following results:

Where to get this free software? Point your browser to the Image Composite Editor site and download either the 32-bit or the 64-bit version depending on your computer hardware. (This software is no longer available.) Installation is simple and the software interface is quite simple. Here is some additional information, some good, some not so good.

In the following gallery, you will see the interface in action. I have captions to indicate what is going on, so I will not elaborate here again. The tool is easy to use, the results are different maybe even fun, play with it with your subjects. It will be interesting to capture some large finches landing on the water on video and show the landing path with the subject in different positions.

Dear Cemal,

I have been using ICE for almost two years now and I find it extremely convenient for panoramas. The newest version looks more commercial but it is better. I would also recommend it to anybody interested.

I have found ICE recently, although it has been out for quite some time. I was mainly intrigued by stitching from video with multiple positions of a moving object. With the right subject, it can produce interesting results. However, as I pointed out there are some shortcomings in the software.

Panoramic images make it possible for a small camera to take really really big pictures; like a city skyline or a natural phenomena that spans from horizon to horizon. If you've ever tried to manually knit a series of overlapping images together in Paint or Photoshop, you know that image distortion makes this a truly difficult and time consuming task. PCSTATS stumbled on a neat solution we thought we'd share.

all you need is a set of panoramic images of some distant scene taken from a single vantage point (ie. stand in one spot and take a series of photos from left to right that slightly overlap each other). with that set of over overlapping photographs, image composite editor can create a single high-resolution panorama that corrects lens distortion and seamlessly combines many original images into one. the program is dead simple to use, just drag and drop a half-dozen overlapping photo's taken from one perspective into the application and it spits out a stitched panoramic image. You then crop the image as necessary and save the high resolution result. What's even cooler, is that MSFT Image Composite Editor can also rip the frames out of a video taken in the same manner and create a panoramic image from the bit of footage you select. Below you'll find a panoramic example taken from seven photos and one short video. The software is so simple to use it's best if you just snap a couple photos and try it yourself. Step 1. Take a series of overlapping photos from a single vantage. Turn to the left or right, go up or down, doesn't really matter. Panoramic image stitching works best with far off objects. Here we have 6 images of the Toronto skyline taken from left to right, with a slight overlap between shots.

Step 2. Drag and drop all the overlapping photos into Microsoft Image Composite Editor at once. The program will parse the images and use only the photos it needs, to create the panorama. If there happens to be an image in your set that doesn't belong, the software is smart enough to skip that image. You'll notice in the freshly stitched image below, the image isn't perfect - this is because the camera moved up to capture the skyline as taller buildings came into frame. There are a couple ways to deal with the voids this creates in the panoramic frame; you can crop them out, retake the images with the camera in portrait mode, or toss the resulting image into Photoshop and repair the image manually. Also note that the resulting panoramic image is full resolution!

Step 3. Crop the image. We chose to crop and then fix the image with a little photo editing software since a blue sky is fairly easy to patch. Click on the image below to see a 1200pixel wide version. Notice that while horizon and tall buildings in the distance are straight and undistorted, the near by office building at the bottom of the image is distorted greatly.

Step 4. If have a video of a scene taken from a single vantage point, Microsoft Image Composite Editor can rip frames from video and stitch together a panoramic image just as easily. We took a quick AVI film of the same Toronto skyline view and dragged the video into MSFT ICE.

Step 5. The software first brings up a window where you can flip between horizontal and vertical video frames; so if you took a video on your Samsung Galaxy or iPhone and it plays on the computer rotated 90-degrees to one side, the software allows you to easily correct that. Next, you'll note that we selected a scene from 3.400 seconds to 14.160 seconds out of the total 20 second video. This lets you "panoramacize" only the bits of the video you're interested in... handy if you have a long video and only want to make a panoramic image from one shot, for example.

Step 6. Below you can see the resulting, raw panoramic image Microsoft Image Composite Editor spits out from the short video file. All that's left is to crop and export the resulting image to disk! At the bottom of the ICE window, it tells us 7 frames were used, spanning 194.2 degrees horizontally, 50.7 degrees vertically.

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