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CREATING panoramas from holiday snaps is a fiddly business. But software that hunts through collections of photos, recognises similar images, matches them up and stitches them together could now do the whole job for you.

Making panoramas is difficult because sequential pictures taken from different angles do not always fit together exactly, due to small changes in the camera’s position and focal length. So before today’s software can blend them into a panorama, users must select the pictures manually, put them in sequence and sometimes even align them.

Now Matthew Brown and David Lowe, computer scientists at the University of…

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