http://youtube.com/watch?v=SfiVqjAU5Ec




Ridiculous new imaging technology, you can test out a beta of this type of software on this site:

http://labs.live.com/photosynth/

[Edited on June 12, 2007 at 1:09 AM. Reason : ]

6/12/2007 1:06:03 AM

that's unreal

6/12/2007 1:37:46 AM

Yeah, I'm just wondering how it all works. I can explain away the text, but the images, unless they're on some ridiculous supercomputer with like 500gb of RAM, I have no idea how they render that fast.

6/12/2007 1:38:50 AM

ha ha, i'm waiting for games to adopt it somehow and render asstons of real world environments to frag bitches in from just a collection of photos



[Edited on June 12, 2007 at 1:48 AM. Reason : i left you a very classy message on youtube]

6/12/2007 1:45:45 AM

http://labs.live.com/photosynth/

You can run it on your own computer.

It works by having multiple "index" images of the same thing, reading the appropriate image for the same resolution.

When they're scrolling around the city from the flickr photos, that's the same thing as when they're browsing the thumbnails... but for the thumbnails, they are using multiple versions of the same image, rather that different pictures of the same thing.

They need to take this a step further though, and come up with a useful interface/application for the algorithm.

6/12/2007 2:08:30 AM

holy fuck that's badass

6/12/2007 2:20:16 AM

This reminds me of The Matrix a bit too much.

6/12/2007 2:52:53 AM

that's pretty amazing

6/12/2007 8:52:57 AM

Quote :

"gronke is a homo, but this is amazing "

6/12/2007 9:15:19 AM

That's really incredible. I've been waiting to see something like this where multiple 2D images map together to make a 3D model. However they've done it, they really did a good job.

6/12/2007 9:18:54 AM

what a horrible horrible thread title... that aside, pretty sweet technology, they should combine this with the multi-touch input stuff they have with surface

actually isn't this a lot like Google Street View in the sense that it can take multiple images and compose them in a manner to simulate 3d? (after looking at the tech preview)

[Edited on June 12, 2007 at 9:23 AM. Reason : .]

6/12/2007 9:19:42 AM

not really

this processes all the images to find similarities in their content to link them together - they use an algorithm to determine how and where the images relate to each other

streetview just uses a special camera that they then sew the images of together - they already know where the images are in relation to each other

6/12/2007 9:42:05 AM

6/12/2007 10:14:12 AM

How long before they use this technology and data from a place like London were there is a CCTV camera every 50 feet to reconstruct people's entire lives?

6/12/2007 12:49:54 PM

Quote :

"what a horrible horrible thread title... "

yeah sorry I wanted something attention grabbing. I guess "RIDICULOUS NEW IMAGING TECHNOLOGY" would have worked

6/12/2007 1:21:02 PM

this shit is nuts. good find.

6/12/2007 1:57:14 PM

I was looking into UNC's comp sci graduate program (I know, I know, flame away), and they were doing research similar to this, except with video instead of still images. It was pretty wild.

If you wait long enough will the thing actually fill in planes? I notice as I'm moving around it's constantly adding pixels. This is really cool.

6/12/2007 2:03:35 PM

shit, that's mind blowing right there. Do they select the photo's or does the algorithm is so smart that it can tell what the photo is, associate it, and then process it to be intertwined with other photos?

6/12/2007 6:11:57 PM

^I believe they're claiming the 2nd one



Playing with the demo now, pretty crazy, I want to do it with my own photos now!!!

6/12/2007 8:23:55 PM

good find

6/13/2007 12:19:05 AM

holy fuck

[Edited on June 13, 2007 at 12:39 AM. Reason : i wish it would let me add my pics i gots bunch form st peters and st marco]

6/13/2007 12:30:52 AM

thats impressive stuff right there

6/13/2007 12:37:36 AM