CELESTE_STANDALONE("1")

👑 CELESTE_STANDALONE("1") — the cloud-identification girlie has entered the chat

okay so this is the manual page for celeste_standalone, from the HUGIN crew, section 1 of the manuals. she's a command-line icon and she's about to ruin your day in the best way (by finding clouds ✨).

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🌸 NAME 🌸

celeste_standalone — cloud identification. literally that's it, that's the whole job. she looks at your photos, she finds the clouds, she removes the control points living in cloud territory. slay.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

celeste_standalone [options] image1 image2 [..]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so bestie, here's the tea: Celeste has been trained using Support vector machine techniques to identify clouds in photos and remove control points from these areas. no cap, that's the whole personality.

celeste_standalone is a command-line tool with all the same functionality as Celeste in hugin. same energy, but make it terminal 💅.

the simple usage — the low-effort, high-reward move — is to just 'clean' an existing project file:

celeste_standalone -i project.pto -o project.pto

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -i <filename> — the input Hugin PTO file. any control points that are over the SVM threshold get removed before being written to the output file. and if -m is set to 1, the images in the file will also be masked. two-for-one 💖
• -o <filename> — the output Hugin PTO file. default: '<filename>_celeste.pto'
• -d <filename> — the SVM model file. default: 'data/celeste.model'
• -s <int> — maximum dimension for the re-sized image prior to processing. a higher value = higher resolution of the mask, but it's significantly slower, so pick your fighter. default: 800
• -t <float> — the SVM threshold. raise this value to remove fewer control points, lower it to remove more. range 0 to 1. default: 0.5
• -m <1|0> — create masks when processing a Hugin PTO file. default: 0
• -f <string> — the mask file format. options are PNG, JPEG, BMP, GIF and TIFF. default: PNG
• -r <1|0> — filter radius. 0 = large (more accurate), 1 = small (higher resolution mask, slower, less accurate). default: 0
• -h — print usage. the "help me help you" flag 🫶

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🌈 AUTHORS 🌈

Written by Tim Nugent. we stan a legend 👑

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ngl the -s and -r flags are the "do you want it fast or do you want it pretty" of this whole operation. choose wisely, bestie 😭

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and that's the whole page!! this manual was brought to you by Version: 2025.0.1, dated 2026-09-22 — go clean some clouds, ily, bye 🧚💜