Photo Tourism (Full)
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  • this is photosynth right? or a competitor?

    DanFrederiksen 1 year ago

  • @DanFrederiksen Dan, this is Noah Snavely's Ph.D. thesis project, Photo Tourism. He was advised by two University of Washington faculty: Steve Seitz of UW's GRAIL lab and Rick Szeliski of Microsoft Research.

    Since Rick had ties to Microsoft and because Gary Flake had recently started up Live Labs, whose express purpose was to work on internet technologies and quickly bring research ideas into usable tech, they turned the idea into a usable product for sharing online before anyone else did.

    netlorens 10 months ago

  • mrb

    ekersu 3 years ago

  • This has been acquired by Microsoft and merged with Seadragon (another acquisition) to create Photosynth, available now to the public.

    atimholt 3 years ago

  • @atimholt, perhaps I'm splitting hairs here, but I wouldn't say that Microsoft acquired Photo Tourism, but rather that they licensed Noah's tech and Photosynth is one implementation of it.

    "User Photos" in Google Maps Street View (and Panoramio's "Look Around" feature, where it comes from) would be another similar implementation, though they don't currently use point clouds.

    Other services return a point cloud, but no way to browse the images in its context: ARC3D, Hypr3D, PhotoCity, etc.

    netlorens 10 months ago

  • this is amazing! love it!

    phill1954 3 years ago

  • It creates a mesh!!!!???? awesome!

    scrag10 3 years ago

  • My buddy was telling me of some amazing long-range views he caught from the Cable car n Wellington . Vocanic Mountains and snow covered peaks of the Southern Alps - man it seems like a dream.

    sandeep14789 3 years ago

  • My buddy was telling me of some amazing long-range views he caught from the Cable car n Wellington . Vocanic Mountains and snow covered peaks of the Southern Alps - man it seems like a dream.

    sandeep14789 3 years ago

  • this is par with the most amazing technology i have seen. I have yet to see a site offering publicly unrestricted or privatized use of this. I would like to learn how to incorporate this into my work. Perhaps it is also possible to parse video frames automatically? So many questions - so many suggestions!

    chikotube 4 years ago

  • is this before being bought by Microsoft? or a separate project?

    MrArmadillo 4 years ago

  • before. type photosynth in search to find out about the projects progress

    Sparkygravity 3 years ago

  • it was in coop with MS.

    ever heard of MS port 25? thy use all kinds of software, and dev on some Open Source and FreeSoftware projects..

    GegoXaren 4 years ago

  • In like five years everyone will be able to browse the world just like that. I can't wait.

    h3nkku 4 years ago

  • me neither... will be really fun! but no privacy :(

    Tecfan 4 years ago

  • this isn't microsoft?? Actually it is called Microsoft Photosynth FYI.

    rocco20pa 4 years ago

  • Are you actually judging this by the system it uses?

    "Yeah I hate this game."

    "Why?"

    "Because it's not for PocketPC."

    "But it's an FPS."

    "STILL THEY SHOULD FUCKING MAKE IT FOR POCKET PC. WHAT A WASTE OF TIME!"

    Pawnstick 4 years ago

  • This could be amazing as a web page. Like wikipedia but a photo tour of the planet. google earth 2.0 anyone?

    WhatIsGod 4 years ago

  • This isn't by microsoft, this is a research project by the University of Washington. Notice how it's running in Linux (look at the dialog boxes and web browser)

    blakeeb 4 years ago

  • We will get to enjoy it. It's just that we will have to shell out money to Microsoft for being so innovative.

    MLeFou 4 years ago

  • Innovative? You must mean reinventive.

    RJLeffmann 4 years ago

  • looks like it was built on linux, but since microsoft stole it we will never get to enjoy it...

    h0a9oeuh98id 4 years ago

  • What's the name of this software, and what company is making it?

    perimus 4 years ago

  • It does seem to be running under linux, but either way it's an amazing piece of software.

    waluum 4 years ago

  • and they use Flickr, which is owned by Yahoo

    Cohengenuity 4 years ago

  • Interesting that Microsoft owns this software, as the demo shows it clearly running under Linux.

    jakepoz 4 years ago

  • what?! finally those microsoftees are making something cool.

    emoneytrain 4 years ago

  • No, they bought something cool. Big difference.

    kjm16 4 years ago

  • this is sick!

    pimmysays 4 years ago

  • kickass as expected.

    what will google do about this ;)

    kidcodea 5 years ago

  • Damn, too bad Microsoft bought this. It should have been free (as in speech) software :/

    styx85 5 years ago

  • this looks awesome although to be honest it wont work perfect ever but it looks cool either way

    chris1280 5 years ago

  • Damn, if only Microsoft brought this creativity home, then the world would not curse their existence :)

    georgehwbush 5 years ago

  • Amazing.

    lancelotz 5 years ago

  • Wow! That's sick! Too bad M$ got it before google did. Would have been a nice addition to google earth.

    hyperkinetic 5 years ago

  • Brilliant!

    Oneshot112 5 years ago

  • This may be the most amazing photo software i have ever seen!!!

    jakerum 5 years ago

  • Wow. This looks really amazing!

    elservas 5 years ago

  • Great? Does this already exist or is it "just" an amazing idea? (I extra signed up for making this comment!)

    mgerlinde 5 years ago

  • yeah it is, i've used it. the only downside is to make a good one you need thousands of images, well depending on how detailed and accurate you want it

    papavb 4 years ago

  • How do I get it to use?

    BestCustomer 4 years ago

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