hugin is a cross-platform open source panorama photo stitching and HDR merging program developed by Pablo d'Angelo and others. It is a GUI front-end for Helmut Dersch's Panorama Tools and Andrew Mihal's Enblend and Enfuse. Stitching is accomplished by using several overlapping photos taken from the same location, and using control points to align and transform the photos so that they can be blended together to form a larger image. hugin allows for the easy (optionally automatic) creation of control points between two images, optimization of the image transforms along with a preview window so the user can see whether the panorama is acceptable. Once the preview is correct, the panorama can be fully stitched, transformed and saved in a standard image format.
Features
hugin and the associated tools can be used to
* combine overlapping images for panoramic photography * correct complete panorama images that are e.g. "wavy" due to a badly levelled panoramic camera * stitch large mosaics of images and photos, e.g. of long walls or large microscopy samples * find control points and optimize parameters with the help of software assistants/wizards * output several projection types, such as equirectangular (used by many full spherical viewers), mercator, cylindrical, stereographic, and sinusoidal * perform advanced photometric corrections and HDR stitching
