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    Hi,

    First, thanks for providing us with an updated version of this tool. I use it to assemble hundreds of panorama from my trips.

    Just a note here about the image completion feature. With ICE 1.4, I used to complete my work using the Windows Store app (Modern) Touch-Retouch that does magic to fill holes left by ICE. Although this process is very manual (area highlighting), it does the job.

    Tonight, I tried the image completion from ICE 2 and I have to say that it blows me away. Although not always perfect (automatically inventing coherent information is not an easy task!), the new feature performs fantastically most of the time. A real time saver here.

    Congratulations to all the team.

    P.S. Have you ever considered making a Windows Store app and somewhat monetize it? - very affordably that is ;)

    Friday, February 6, 2015 2:33 AM

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    Thanks TheCyberKnight. We were very pleased to be able to bring this to our users and really appreciate your feedback.


    Friday, February 6, 2015 6:41 PM

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    I'd like to echo CyberKnight's sentiments here.

    One of my first exposures to this sort of idea in 2007 was Microsoft Research's HDR Image Hallucination.

    Later in 2010, a much more directly parallel functionally predecessor was Photoshop CS5's 'Content Aware Fill'.
    I've used CAF in Photoshop multiple times (although not often since Photoshop has always been out of my price bracket, and so I've been limited to when I install a trial/demo of Photoshop). ICE 2's free option is very welcome.

    There are certainly limitations to what a computer can fill into empty holes.
    I look forward to the day when Bing has a web service constantly matching online images and indexing their positions geo-spatially so that any tool such as ICE or Photoshop can call out to the web for nearby imagery (even if it is from slightly different angles) to form a more solid basis for hallucinating into the holes.

    There is no effect without a cause.

    Friday, February 6, 2015 6:50 AM
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    Thanks TheCyberKnight. We were very pleased to be able to bring this to our users and really appreciate your feedback.


    Friday, February 6, 2015 6:41 PM