Manual Alignment of Mosaic seems to get thrown out of the window
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Alex Moldovan
Aug 31, 2023, 11:03:10 AM8/31/23
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So I've been using PTGui for stitching together images taken with a microscope and it's been working nearly seamlessly (no pun intended) for the last few years. Today (actually last night as I've now wasted 8+ hours on this) I found that PTGui doesn't look my images for a specific batch.
Trying to use the project assistant and doing this as normal yields a horrible mess of unaligned photos and rotated images. Bearing in mind nothing needs rotating as the camera is kept the same distance is just shifted in the XY of the focal plane (not even tilting).
So here are the things I've tried:
1) I followed the instructions in the manual (yes I read it). No luck.
2) I've tried switching off just the roll or just the pitch or just the yawn or combinations of each one nothing.
3) I've tried iterating several times with the optimiser.
And finally the thing I thought would fix everything...
I manually , pain stainkly aligned 220 images by hand, calculated the Control Points between all overlapping images and prayed the optimiser would just snap everything into place and do the final movements... Here is the before from manual alignment.
And then the "optimised version" using the suggested mosaic settings in the docs:
So I have a couple of questions:
1) Does anyone know where I am going wrong (because clearly I am being an idiot)
2) Is there any way to get PTGui to only translate the photos as opposed to rotate them? I thought unticking the "roll" for all images would do the trick (being around the lens axis )
3) Is there any other way to stitch together a mosaic/tiled image? (without using "align grid" which would require a robot realistically for what I do).
Thank you in advance for anyone that takes the time to even read this :)
Alex
Trying to use the project assistant and doing this as normal yields a horrible mess of unaligned photos and rotated images. Bearing in mind nothing needs rotating as the camera is kept the same distance is just shifted in the XY of the focal plane (not even tilting).
So here are the things I've tried:
1) I followed the instructions in the manual (yes I read it). No luck.
2) I've tried switching off just the roll or just the pitch or just the yawn or combinations of each one nothing.
3) I've tried iterating several times with the optimiser.
And finally the thing I thought would fix everything...
I manually , pain stainkly aligned 220 images by hand, calculated the Control Points between all overlapping images and prayed the optimiser would just snap everything into place and do the final movements... Here is the before from manual alignment.
And then the "optimised version" using the suggested mosaic settings in the docs:
So I have a couple of questions:
1) Does anyone know where I am going wrong (because clearly I am being an idiot)
2) Is there any way to get PTGui to only translate the photos as opposed to rotate them? I thought unticking the "roll" for all images would do the trick (being around the lens axis )
3) Is there any other way to stitch together a mosaic/tiled image? (without using "align grid" which would require a robot realistically for what I do).
Thank you in advance for anyone that takes the time to even read this :)
Alex
Alex Moldovan
Aug 31, 2023, 11:07:25 AM8/31/23
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I think I've answered my own question to fixing it...
Turns out I had some control points that were whacky. Even though they shouldn't have been -.-". I tried getting rid of the "Worse" but that didn't work so I went to an earlier save where I had the manual placement done. I then deleted the control points and calculate only those for the overlapping images. And TADA!
Fixed. Although it'd be nice to know how to restrict the rotation.
Alex
Turns out I had some control points that were whacky. Even though they shouldn't have been -.-". I tried getting rid of the "Worse" but that didn't work so I went to an earlier save where I had the manual placement done. I then deleted the control points and calculate only those for the overlapping images. And TADA!
Fixed. Although it'd be nice to know how to restrict the rotation.
Alex
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Aug 31, 2023, 11:57:38 AM8/31/23
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Hi Alex,
Yes this would have been caused by bad control points.
You can tell PTGui to not rotate your images by not optimizing the Roll.
On the Optimizer tab, switch the optimizer settings to advanced mode.
Disable all Roll checkboxes. In the Image Parameters tab, ensure that
all images have a roll of 0.
Kind regards,
Joost Nieuwenhuijse
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On 31-08-2023 17:06, Alex Moldovan wrote:
> I think I've answered my own question to fixing it...
>
> Turns out I had some control points that were whacky. Even though they
> shouldn't have been -.-". I tried getting rid of the "Worse" but that
> didn't work so I went to an earlier save where I had the manual
> placement done. I then deleted the control points and calculate only
> those for the overlapping images. And TADA!
>
>
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Yes this would have been caused by bad control points.
You can tell PTGui to not rotate your images by not optimizing the Roll.
On the Optimizer tab, switch the optimizer settings to advanced mode.
Disable all Roll checkboxes. In the Image Parameters tab, ensure that
all images have a roll of 0.
Kind regards,
Joost Nieuwenhuijse
www.ptgui.com
On 31-08-2023 17:06, Alex Moldovan wrote:
> I think I've answered my own question to fixing it...
>
> Turns out I had some control points that were whacky. Even though they
> shouldn't have been -.-". I tried getting rid of the "Worse" but that
> didn't work so I went to an earlier save where I had the manual
> placement done. I then deleted the control points and calculate only
> those for the overlapping images. And TADA!
>
> Screenshot 2023-08-31 160552.png
>
> Fixed. Although it'd be nice to know how to restrict the rotation.
>
> Alex
>
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 4:03 PM Alex Moldovan <a.a.mo...@gmail.com
> <mailto:a.a.mo...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> So I've been using PTGui for stitching together images taken with a
> microscope and it's been working nearly seamlessly (no pun intended)
> for the last few years. Today (actually last night as I've now
> wasted 8+ hours on this) I found that PTGui doesn't look my images
> for a specific batch.
>
> Trying to use the project assistant and doing this as normal yields
> a horrible mess of unaligned photos and rotated images. Bearing in
> mind nothing needs rotating as the camera is kept the same distance
> is just shifted in the XY of the focal plane (not even tilting).
>
> So here are the things I've tried:
>
> 1) I followed the instructions in the manual (yes I read it). No luck.
> 2) I've tried switching off just the roll or just the pitch or just
> the yawn or combinations of each one nothing.
> 3) I've tried iterating several times with the optimiser.
> And finally the thing I thought would fix everything...
>
> I manually , pain stainkly aligned 220 images by hand, calculated
> the Control Points between all overlapping images and prayed the
> optimiser would just snap everything into place and do the final
> movements... Here is the before from manual alignment.
>
> Fixed. Although it'd be nice to know how to restrict the rotation.
>
> Alex
>
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 4:03 PM Alex Moldovan <a.a.mo...@gmail.com
> <mailto:a.a.mo...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> So I've been using PTGui for stitching together images taken with a
> microscope and it's been working nearly seamlessly (no pun intended)
> for the last few years. Today (actually last night as I've now
> wasted 8+ hours on this) I found that PTGui doesn't look my images
> for a specific batch.
>
> Trying to use the project assistant and doing this as normal yields
> a horrible mess of unaligned photos and rotated images. Bearing in
> mind nothing needs rotating as the camera is kept the same distance
> is just shifted in the XY of the focal plane (not even tilting).
>
> So here are the things I've tried:
>
> 1) I followed the instructions in the manual (yes I read it). No luck.
> 2) I've tried switching off just the roll or just the pitch or just
> the yawn or combinations of each one nothing.
> 3) I've tried iterating several times with the optimiser.
> And finally the thing I thought would fix everything...
>
> I manually , pain stainkly aligned 220 images by hand, calculated
> the Control Points between all overlapping images and prayed the
> optimiser would just snap everything into place and do the final
> movements... Here is the before from manual alignment.
> Manual_Stitch.png
> And then the "optimised version" using the suggested mosaic settings
> in the docs:
> And then the "optimised version" using the suggested mosaic settings
> in the docs:
> Screenshot 2023-08-31 150901.png
> So I have a couple of questions:
>
> 1) Does anyone know where I am going wrong (because clearly I am
> being an idiot)
> 2) Is there any way to get PTGui to only translate the photos as
> opposed to rotate them? I thought unticking the "roll" for all
> images would do the trick (being around the lens axis )
> 3) Is there any other way to stitch together a mosaic/tiled image?
> (without using "align grid" which would require a robot
> realistically for what I do).
>
> Thank you in advance for anyone that takes the time to even read
> this :)
>
> Alex
>
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> So I have a couple of questions:
>
> 1) Does anyone know where I am going wrong (because clearly I am
> being an idiot)
> 2) Is there any way to get PTGui to only translate the photos as
> opposed to rotate them? I thought unticking the "roll" for all
> images would do the trick (being around the lens axis )
> 3) Is there any other way to stitch together a mosaic/tiled image?
> (without using "align grid" which would require a robot
> realistically for what I do).
>
> Thank you in advance for anyone that takes the time to even read
> this :)
>
> Alex
>
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Alex Moldovan
Aug 31, 2023, 12:15:38 PM8/31/23
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Hey Joost,
So this is the strange thing. I did that and it still threw it into disarray. Maybe the control points were causing it not to work properly. But I was getting some strange results even without rolling. I'll try it again for the next image :)
Alex
Alex
So this is the strange thing. I did that and it still threw it into disarray. Maybe the control points were causing it not to work properly. But I was getting some strange results even without rolling. I'll try it again for the next image :)
Alex
Alex
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John Houghton
Aug 31, 2023, 12:24:12 PM8/31/23
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Alex, It would be better to optimize all of the roll parameters with the "Link roll" option checked at the bottom of the advanced page of the optimizer. Certainly the roll parameters should all be identical, but not necessarily exactly zero. By linking them they will all be kept the same but they will be free to take up the actual common roll value.
John
Erik Krause
Aug 31, 2023, 3:56:50 PM8/31/23
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Am 31.08.2023 um 17:06 schrieb Alex Moldovan:
> I had the manual placement done. I then deleted the control points
> and calculate only those for the overlapping images. And TADA!
If your images are in a regular grid, you can try "Align to Grid" from
> I had the manual placement done. I then deleted the control points
> and calculate only those for the overlapping images. And TADA!
the Project menu, then create control points for the overlapping images.
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