Photo tourism is a system for browsing large collections of photographs in 3D, developed by the University of Washington: http://phototour.cs.washington.edu/
@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.
@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.
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.
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.
@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
@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
this is photosynth right? or a competitor?
DanFrederiksen 1 year ago
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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
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
before. type photosynth in search to find out about the projects progress
Sparkygravity 3 years ago