My Autopano Pro forum

I love AutoDetect to death -- a great idea.  While some older cameras use special file names for panorama shots -- most just treat them normally.  Without AutoDetect it can take some work to find them among all the solo shots.

I'm also using AutoDetect to trawl through older photos to find candidates for stiching.  Sometimes it finds panoramas I've forgotten about - other times it finds shots that can be stitched together even though that wasn't the original intention.

The problem with AutoDetect are too many 'false positives' -- AutoPano fills up with many possible combinations that are not applicable.  These arise from very similar shots that are really variations on the same photo - not really stitch candidates - some examples of 'false positives':

- a original photo and an edited version of it
- multiple shots of the same scene taken at the same time (perhaps with different settings)
- multiple shots at the same time/place but with different people in the foreground (AutoPano suggests a curious merged image with 'ghosts' of the people).

All these scenarios could be avoided if AutoDetect has an option to skip over images that are TOO similar -- perhaps a setting to ignore photos that have more than nn% overlap (probably at setting of 70-100% depending). 

There may well be some more elegant solution - I leave that to smarter people than me.

I hope this helps and doesn't duplicate another posting (I did check).

Van