Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 1st Aug 2006 17:21 UTC, submitted by Dylan
A technology called Photosynth, developed by Microsoft Research in collaboration with University of Washington, has the potential to change the way we look at maps. "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."
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2005-10-30
"The human brain deals with this problem by making canonical representations; adjusting what is seen to try to remove artifacts caused by the angle of view."
. But I still want to know how much refining had to be done by hand.
True, but let's not forget stereoscopic vision altogether. Sure it's not required to figure out objects, proportion and perspective, but it definitely helps.
As for the GPS thing in another post, again that's true, but I really doubt the GPS resolution is enough for the accuracy required, unless of course you're just taking pictures of large panoramas far far away. But orientation definitely helps. As for the data inside each shot, true again, that helps. Fact is, not every picture comes with that data and again we're quite far behind the information required.
"The UW site says that they needed weeks of number-crunching to generate each 3-D reconstruction."
Well at least that doesn't surprise me