Photosynth Gone Wild

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Photosynth Gone Wild

posted @ Wednesday, August 13, 2008 9:56 AM | 4 Comments

Remember Photosynth? Remember when you first saw it and your initial smile came across you in that ‘this is cool’ kind of feeling?

Multiply that.

A team at the University of Washington in conjunction with Microsoft Research presented “Finding Paths Through the World’s Photos” at SIGGRAPH2008. I haven’t read the paper yet, but the video speaks for itself in the advancements of photo recognition and path interpolation to me:

There is some really similar Photosynth and DeepZoom stuff happening here, but a lot more as well. You can visit their site to read more and also download some code from some of the parts of the system.

UPDATE: And when you are done watching this, check out Unwrap "editing video is now as easy as editing a single image." -- Um freaky.

tags: photosynth, deepzoom, silverlight, siggraph, photo tourism

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Comments

Lance Fisher

8/13/2008 10:34 AM | # re: Photosynth Gone Wild

Wow, this stuff is really cool. It also makes a good case for people to share more and more content.
Tom

8/13/2008 10:48 AM | # re: Photosynth Gone Wild

Neat. Now, if we could just get a 3D-accelerated Street View browser with path interpolation and WASD+mouse navigation... Oh, that, and the holodeck. :)
John

8/13/2008 4:25 PM | # re: Photosynth Gone Wild

Very cool, I see this technology maturing into some very usable. Although I imagine the processing power and bandwidth requirements are quite high I for one am ready to upgrade ;)
So when are we going to see something released for the public to play with? Don't let someone else beat you to it.
Steve

8/13/2008 4:26 PM | # re: Photosynth Gone Wild

I have had a play around with photsynth and deep zoom and it just blows my mind I think back 10 years and if you said that we could do this to images then you would have thought that you would need racks and racks of top of the line machines running for days. But this stuff just works on an average pc, amazing. Makes me kick myself about all the long hours and weekends I worked on a project to consolidated historical sales data on 486's which took days to run and these days would have just gone snap. What is next.