Microsoft To Revolutionize Photo Imaging
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Microsoft is currently hard at work on a project it calls Photosynth that aims to revolutionize the way people view their photo collections as well as change the way people take photos.
Photosynth can take a collection of photos, analyze them, and model them into a 3D virtual scene. Each photo is placed in their perspective; correct position, enabling users to see where one photo was taken in relation to another.
For example, a photography enthusiast visiting Las Vegas can take hundreds of photographs of the Las Vegas strip and with the use of Photosynth, the user can catalog all the photos and build a virtual world out of them, modeling Las Vegas as he saw it.
Photosynth allows users to move around in the 3D world, viewing scenes from any angle, regardless of how the photos were taken.
Photosynth will allow users to zoom in, pan and fly through any photo or 3D scene without hiccups or pauses, no matter what it's size is. Microsoft claims "scaling is near perfect and rapid for screens of any resolution." Another powerful feature of Photosynth is its ability to "DNA" and recognize photos featuring distinct similarities that will allow users to take a picture of an object, have Photosynth analyze it, and automatically find information about it online.
Source: DailyTech
Photosynth can take a collection of photos, analyze them, and model them into a 3D virtual scene. Each photo is placed in their perspective; correct position, enabling users to see where one photo was taken in relation to another.
For example, a photography enthusiast visiting Las Vegas can take hundreds of photographs of the Las Vegas strip and with the use of Photosynth, the user can catalog all the photos and build a virtual world out of them, modeling Las Vegas as he saw it.
Photosynth allows users to move around in the 3D world, viewing scenes from any angle, regardless of how the photos were taken.
Photosynth will allow users to zoom in, pan and fly through any photo or 3D scene without hiccups or pauses, no matter what it's size is. Microsoft claims "scaling is near perfect and rapid for screens of any resolution." Another powerful feature of Photosynth is its ability to "DNA" and recognize photos featuring distinct similarities that will allow users to take a picture of an object, have Photosynth analyze it, and automatically find information about it online.
It seems Microsoft has some very large plans for Photosynth, and it's also clear that Photosynth incorporates some very interesting and powerful technologies.Each photo is processed by computer vision algorithms to extract hundreds of distinctive features, like the corner of a window frame or a doorhandle. Then, photos that share features are linked together in a web. When a feature’s found in multiple images, its 3D position can be calculated. It’s similar to depth perception—what your brain does to perceive the 3D positions of things in your field of view based on their images in both of your eyes.
Source: DailyTech
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