Image capture and ordering
One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for ordering images for panorama stitching and/or for providing a focal point indicator for image capture. For example, one or more images, which may be stitched together to create a panorama of a scene, may be stored within an image stack according to one or more ordering preferences, such as where manually captured images are stored within a first/higher priority region of the image stack as compared to automatically captured images. One or more images within the image stack may be stitched according to a stitching order to create the panorama, such as using images in the first region for a foreground of the panorama. Also, a current position of a camera may be tracked and compared with a focal point of a scene to generate a focal point indicator to assist with capturing a new/current image of the scene.
1. A method for ordering images for panorama stitching, comprising:
maintaining, by a computing device, an image stack comprising a plurality of existing images, the maintaining comprising:
receiving a new image;
responsive to the new image corresponding to a first ordering preference, adding the new image to a first region of the image stack having a lower stitching priority relative to a second region of the image stack;
receiving an input corresponding to the new image indicating that the new image is to be moved to a higher stitching priority region in the image stack;
responsive to the received input, adding the new image to the second region of the image stack; and
stitching, by the computing device, the new image and the plurality of existing images in the image stack according to a stitching order priority assigned to each image of the image stack to generate the panorama.
2. The method of claim 1 , the first ordering preference corresponding to a manually captured image and the second ordering preference corresponding to an automatically captured image.
3. The method of claim 1 , the stitching order associating the first region with a foreground bias and the second region with a background bias.
4. The method of claim 1 , comprising:
responsive to receiving input modifying a position of an image within the image stack, reordering one or more images within the image stack based upon the input.
5. The method of claim 4 , the reordering comprising at least one of:
reassigning a first image from the first region to the second region; or
reassigning a second image from the second region to the first region.
6. A system for ordering images for panorama stitching, comprising:
an image stack component configured to:
maintain, by a computing device, an image stack comprising a plurality of existing images, the maintaining comprising:
receive a new image;
responsive to the new image corresponding to a first ordering preference, add the new image to a first region of the image stack having a lower stitching priority relative to a second region of the image stack;
receive an input corresponding to the new image indicating that the new image is to be moved to a higher stitching priority region in the image stack; and
responsive to the received input, add the new image to a second region of the image stack; and
a stitching component configured to:
stitch, by the computing device, the new image and the plurality of existing images in the image stack according to a stitching order priority assigned to each image of the image stack to generate the panorama.
7. The system of claim 6 , comprising:
a camera position component configured to:
track current position of a camera;
compare the current position with a focal point of a scene, depicted by one or more previously captured images within the image stack, to generate a focal point indicator; and
provide the focal point indicator during capture of the current image of the scene.
8. The system of claim 6 , the stitching order associating the first region with a foreground bias and the second region with a background bias.
9. The system of claim 6 , the image stack component configured to:
responsive to receiving input modifying a position of an image within the image stack, reorder one or more images within the image stack based upon the input.
10. The system of claim 9 , the image stack component configured to perform at least one of:
reassign a first image from the first region to the second region; or
reassign a second image from the second region to the first region.
11. The system of claim 7 , the stitching component configured to stitch the one or more images in the image stack based upon the focal point to generate the panorama.
12. The method of claim 1 , the first ordering preference designating that an image captured later in time is added to a top position in the image stack.
13. The method of claim 6 , the first ordering preference designating that an image captured later in time is added to a top position in the image stack.