MS Live Labs’ Photosynth
Posted on August 10th, 2006 by wil
My secret mole at Microsoft passed this little top-secret project over to me:
http://labs.live.com/photosynth/video.html
Wow, what a brilliant concept — use the world’s photos to reconstruct a location.
(Also worth checking out are the other lab-like projects that the Evil Empire is working on: http://labs.live.com)
Here’s a snippet from my MSN Messenger conversation with said-mole:
jeff jeff jeff cat! says:have you seen this? http://labs.live.com/photosynth/video.html jeff jeff jeff cat! says:should try leveraging it for jerde v2 Wil (Mod7) says:wow, that’s @#$% [ed] wicked Wil (Mod7) says:i wonder how they will address temporal change Wil (Mod7) says:i.e., my photo of the woodward’s building that isn’t there anymore jeff jeff jeff cat! says:very interesting.. i wonder if thigns would gradually deconstruct Wil (Mod7) says:maybe timestamps. etc might help, combined with a little ‘timestamp’ voting where more images of a particular location exist \ Wil (Mod7) says:but, yeah, with incomplete, multi-tiome coverage Wil (Mod7) says:it could be a wild look jeff jeff jeff cat! says:it is effed up.. what you were asking about “what if a building goes away” jeff jeff jeff cat! says:that’ll be a feature soon enough.. since photos have a timestamp, they’re thinking of letting you look at a scene chronologically.. and possibly into renaissance time (using paintings & etchings). Spladow! Wil (Mod7) says:pow!~ that’s HOT jeff jeff jeff cat! says:yeah dude.. soon enough there will be a public version. The crazy thing is - there’s NO human input. All the positioning, stitching, recognition, 3d, etc. is automated by robots Wil (Mod7) says:THAT is what computers should be doing Wil (Mod7) says:i’m so impressed jeff jeff jeff cat! says:Almost as cool as the software is the mechanics behind it. It’s a bit much to get into, but i’m glad to know there are smart smart people out there. Wil (Mod7) says:what’s interesting is how that emerged from a rapid visualization tool
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