Photosynth from Microsoft Labs (Digital Photography News)
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Photosynth from Microsoft Live Labs sounds amazing. They think so too by stating, boldly, that it “will change the way you think about digital photos forever”. Photosynth takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed 3-Dimensional space.
Using this data you can walk or fly through a scene, zoom in and out, see where different photos were taken in relation to one another and find similar photos to the one you are viewing.
The photos are analysed to highlight hundreds of individual distinctive features – this could be a door frame corner or a a door handle. These features are linked and matched, with multiple images of the same item its 3D position can be calculated. The zooming feature sounds impressive too – you can, well, zoom right in!
It sounds mightily impressive and the potential they talk about – with photos having unique IDs and links to tags, urls and such like equally so.
But it is not yet available and no release date has been given. In the meantime have a look at the video and keep an eye on the teams blog.
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