Photosynth
Posted by David on Saturday, July 29, 2006 at 7:49 AM.
It's always exciting when I can finally talk about, and show people examples of, something that our research team has been working on for a while. In this case, the very cool Photosynth.
From the Photosynth site: "Photosynth takes a large collection of photos of a place or object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed 3-Dimensional space."
One of the interesting things here is that images of any resolution or angle are useful as part of the data. Crappy camera phone image of a detail? That might be more detail than is contained in any of the other photos, so it might be useful for zooming in. Accidental shot of the ceiling when you bumped your shutter relase? Also a valuable part of the data set.