Hugin should write projection info to output
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Hugin |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When Hugin creates an output image it discards all the photometric and geometric information it knows about this image. Hugin ought to write metadata to the image that would allow Hugin to use the image as input at some time in the future.
Important information is:
1. Horizontal field of view.
2. Projection and any relevant projection parameters.
3. Cropping information, since otherwise the hfov isn't usable.
4. EV.
5. EMoR parameters since these are effectively transferred from the first photo in the project to the output.
We could create fake sensor and focal length info, but this would only be credible for rectilinear output. So probably the only way to do this would be to write to the EXIF notes section much like qtpfsgui/luminance, e.g. this is typical qtpfsgui output (this is the actual format):
Qtpfsgui 1.9.3 tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Mantiuk
Parameters:
Contrast Mapping factor: 0.1
Saturation Factor: 2
Detail Factor: 1
------
PreGamma: 0.636
We already require exiftool, this info can be added to the existing exiftool command in the .pto.mk stitching Makefile
tags: | added: exif |
Changed in hugin: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in hugin: | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
Changed in hugin: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
I tried to do this myself, but I find the new Makefile system to be even harder to comprehend than the old one :-(
The exiftool command modification is quite simple, we should add both a 'Software' and 'User Comment' EXIF tag, this sort of command works and can be added to the existing (though I don't think the exact format of the data is very important):
exiftool -UserComment= 'Projection: 2, HFoV: 360, EV: 15.5, etc...' -Software='Hugin 2010.5. 0.2f3941e43176' output.jpg
We can optionally add new lines for pretty formatting (similar to qtpfsgui) using the -E parameter and HTML character codes:
exiftool -E -UserComment= 'Projection: Equirectangular (2)
HFoV: 360
' output.jpg