Spiller said:Overmix is an advanced stitching application for combining several anime screenshots into one larger image. Similar to applications which produces panorama images from a series of photos, but specifically for anime.
The idea with Overmix is however not to make it easier to stitch screenshots, but to provide methods which can produce higher quality stitches than what possibly could be done by hand. For example, by using all 50, 100 or 200 frames in a scene, we can significantly reduce compression artifacts and issues such as banding.
I'm mainly doing this for fun/learning by now, so I have tried things such as logo/credits removal and reducing stream. Currently working with detecting cyclic animations and in the summer I will try to learn and implement at least one decent super resolution method.
For more details, see the following blog posts:
http://spillerrec.dk/2013/02/stitching-anime-screenshots-in-overdrive/
http://spillerrec.dk/2014/01/a-year-of-overmixing/
Overmix is open-source and available on Github:
https://github.com/spillerrec/Overmix
64-bit Windows releases can be found here:
https://github.com/spillerrec/Overmix/releases
(Making sure all DLL files are properly included can be difficult without a clean test computer, so do tell me if there are any problems.)
Linux guys, just compile from source, instructions are in "README.md"
Usage:
Screenshot:
http://i.imgur.com/okNsc1d.png
You add images by draging them into the application window. You can drag several images at once, just make sure you drag on the first one so they are added in the correct order. Click "Align&Draw" to render the image, or just "Draw" if you already did align it. All the other options contains more fine-grained options for controlling the process: (Default options should work fine in most cases though)
"Preprocess" contains options to crop black borders, de-telecine and such. Will be done before aligning images, while loading them
"Merging" contains options to control how images should be aligned. By default it only aligns vertically, as 95% of all stitches only contain vertical motion.
"Render" gives different ways to render the image, just keep it on "Average"
"Postprocess" applies filters and such on the rendered image, such as scaling and brightness.
"Color" is for color management. Use "Rec. 709" for HDTV and BD, and "Rec. 601" for analog mastered DVDs.
