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Photosynth: 3D Models For Virtual EarthToday at the Web 2.0 Expo Berlin Blaise, architect of Live Labs, showed off future functionality of Photosynth, their amazing 3d model-generator. The features hints at future Virtual Earth integration. Since Photosynth was first released Live Labs has been putting out collections that they have created. There has been hope that someday people would be able to make their own collections with their own photos or that Photosynth could turn Flickr's photos into a collection of the world. This spring Photosynth will be released with the ability to make your own collections and a community site for sharing them. Upon release you'll be able to model your home, your room, or yourself. You'll be able to link the collections together and flow from one to the next.
Blaise demoed a model of Banteay Srei that he had constructed that morning in 5 minutes from a couple hundred photos. The image above is from that model. Separately UW professor Steve Seitz is using a precursor of Photosynth to also build 3D models from online photos. (via Slashdot)
This technology will be a great compliment to Virtual Earth. VE recently released Photosynth-esque navigation though their 3D views (Radar post). Soon we can imagine being able to create our own 3D views of our town just by taking the photos and sharing them via Photosynth's geocommunity (like we can expect from Everyscape and similat to Google's 3D Warehouse).
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Comments: 4
Hugo [ 7 November 2007 07:13 AM]
Having tried photosyth out, I initially thought that it created 3D models out of photographs, and was rather disappointed when I realized it "just" organized and displayed a collection of photographs in 3d space with the angle of the pictures correlating to your position in the 3d space to give the illusion of full 3d.
It would make a very good tool for preparing a visualization of a situation like a battlefield where you may have many pictures from many angles.
csven [ 7 November 2007 07:23 AM]
So how might this fit in with Dassault's 3Dvia tie-in? Haven't puzzled that one out entirely.
Manuel [ 8 November 2007 02:06 AM]
That is awesome, I made some 3D objects for Google maps already but that technique looks better to me.
Paul [ 9 November 2007 06:33 AM]
Real 3D models from photographs can be created by uploading them to the ARC3D website (http://www.arc3d.be) at the University of Leuven, Belgium. An example of the Arc de Triomphe can be viewed at http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/psi/visics/research/demos/ by clicking on the image of the ADT.