Photo software creates 3-D world

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Photo tourism is a system for browsing large collections of photographs in 3D. Researcheracutes approach takes as input large collections of images from either personal photo collections or Internet photo sharing sites and automatically computes each ...
Photo tourism is a system for browsing large collections of photographs in 3D. Researcher's approach takes as input large collections of images from either personal photo collections or Internet photo sharing sites, and automatically computes each photo's viewpoint and a sparse 3D model of the scene. Photo explorer interface enables the viewer to interactively move about the 3D space by seamlessly transitioning between photographs, based on user control. Credit: University of Washington

In the digital age, organizing a photo collection has gone from bad to worse. The saying used to be that a picture is worth a thousand words. Now the question arises: what are a thousand pictures worth? In a word, a headache.


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