This Software takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and then displays the photos in a reconstructed three-dimensional space, showing you how each one relates to the next.
About six months ago, a Microsoft researcher, a PhD student, and a University professor invented a new photo browsing technology called “Photo Tourism”. The technology was so cool that anyone who saw it wanted to be part of the project. Noah Snavely, a student at the University of Washington (UW), had single-handedly coded a rich prototype under the joint supervision of Steve Seitz (also from UW) and Rick Szeliski from Microsoft Research (MSR). The question was: what were we (Microsoft) going to do with such a rich concept?
Seadragon had also developed a photo browsing technology. It was very different from Photo Tourism. Seadragon provided seamless zooming around collections of pictures and efficient multi-resolution streaming transport between clients and servers. Photo Tourism matched pictures, found logical transitions between them, and built a 3 dimensional interraction model. Seadragon and Photo Tourism were a marriage of technologies made in heaven. With rapid prototyping in mind, we entered a mutually beneficial partnership between the University of Washington, Live Labs, and MSR. The symbiosis of Photo Tourism and Seadragon became the Live Labs project called Photosynth.
Install Photosynth: http://labs.live.com/photosynth/installing.htm
View Videos:
http://labs.live.com/photosynth/blogs/
http://labs.live.com/photosynth/video.html
About six months ago, a Microsoft researcher, a PhD student, and a University professor invented a new photo browsing technology called “Photo Tourism”. The technology was so cool that anyone who saw it wanted to be part of the project. Noah Snavely, a student at the University of Washington (UW), had single-handedly coded a rich prototype under the joint supervision of Steve Seitz (also from UW) and Rick Szeliski from Microsoft Research (MSR). The question was: what were we (Microsoft) going to do with such a rich concept?
Seadragon had also developed a photo browsing technology. It was very different from Photo Tourism. Seadragon provided seamless zooming around collections of pictures and efficient multi-resolution streaming transport between clients and servers. Photo Tourism matched pictures, found logical transitions between them, and built a 3 dimensional interraction model. Seadragon and Photo Tourism were a marriage of technologies made in heaven. With rapid prototyping in mind, we entered a mutually beneficial partnership between the University of Washington, Live Labs, and MSR. The symbiosis of Photo Tourism and Seadragon became the Live Labs project called Photosynth.
Install Photosynth: http://labs.live.com/photosynth/installing.htm
View Videos:
http://labs.live.com/photosynth/blogs/
http://labs.live.com/photosynth/video.html
Feature Plan: http://labs.live.com/photosynth/whatis/smartphotos.html
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