Observed arrival · 2026-11-03
OpenFocus, pixel-by-pixel focus stacking
An open-source desktop app and command-line tool that aligns focus-stack images and fuses them into a single, all-in-focus result.
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- Macro, microscopy, and industrial-inspection image makers
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- Its synthetic benchmark uses a 16-frame stack, known depth map, and noise level σ = 3.
Field notes
The workflow includes five alignment modes, ranging from no alignment to SIFT homography and ECC-based options, and lets users compare rendered methods at a shared crop. Its benchmark is described as a synthetic 16-frame stack with noise σ = 3 and a known depth map; the page links to a script for reproducing it. The site also lists Windows and Apple Silicon builds and a Linux pip install.
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