Microsoft Photosynth Turns Photo Collections to 3-D Space

[ReelFiles]

http://www.sda-india.com/sda/news/psecom,i...uage,India.html

 

"Microsoft Live Labs has released a technology preview of an application named ‘Photosynth’, which takes a collection of pictures and creates a three-dimensional space for them by analysing the images and looking for similarities.

 

With Photosynth users can:

 

* Walk or fly through a scene to see photos from any angle.

* Zoom in or out of a photograph whether it’s megapixels or gigapixels in size

* See where pictures were taken in relation to one another

* Find similar photos to the one currently being viewed

* Explore a custom tour.

* Send a collection to a friend

 

 

Photosynth begins by processing an image and creating a point cloud that gives the image a unique identifier, a DNA-like profile that describes the features that have been recognised in the image.

 

With this ‘Image DNA’, Photosynth could show other photos that have similar features to the one currently being viewed.

 

Annotations, tags, or even URLs could one day be applied to an image and transferred to similar images.

 

Photosynth could connect your photographs into a seamless web of images and information, allowing users to browse a virtual universe of interconnected scenes that constantly evolves and changes over time."

 

 

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This seems like some very interesting technology, are there any similar freeware applications out atm?

[EllisD]

Wow, that has the potential to be pretty sweet. I have not personally heard of this before but im gonna do a little research when i have some time. Nice find.

[ReelFiles]

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

 

http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=220870

 

http://on10.net/Blogs/TheShow/4187/

 

Liking it more and more.