Make3D: Turn a 2D Picture Into a 3D Model. Stanford University service Make3D automatically converts a single picture into a 3D model.
We covered similar technology from Fotowoosh in April 2007. Make3D takes a two-dimensional image and creates a three-dimensional fly around model that includes depth and a range views. Photos can be uploaded directly or pulled into the site from Flickr. The service is based on an algorithm created by Stanford students Andrew Ng, Ashutosh Saxena and Min Sun that won the best paper award at the 3D recognition and reconstruction workshop at the International Conference on Computer Vision in Rio de Janeiro in October 2007. A January Stanford News Service piece explains it some more: Convert your image into 3d automatically. Nature : 3-D flythrough. Convert your image into 3d model.