Single Image 3D Reconstruction. Photosynth. Photosynth is a software application from Microsoft Live Labs and the University of Washington that analyzes digital photographs and generates a three-dimensional model of the photos and a point cloud of a photographed object.[1] Pattern recognition components compare portions of images to create points, which are then compared to convert the image into a model.
Users are able to view and generate their own models using a software tool available for download at the Photosynth website. History[edit] Photosynth is based on Photo Tourism, a research project by University of Washington graduate student Noah Snavely.[2] Shortly after Microsoft's acquisition of Seadragon in early 2006, that team began work on Photosynth, under the direction of Seadragon founder Blaise Agüera y Arcas.[3] Microsoft released a free tech preview version on November 9, 2006.
In March 2010, Photosynth added support for Gigapixel panoramas stitched in Microsoft ICE. Process[edit] Capabilities[edit] In the media[edit] ALE. VTK - The Visualization Toolkit. Blowing up HTML5 video and mapping it into 3D space « Craftymind. I’ve been doing a bit of experimenting with the Canvas and Video tags in HTML5 lately, and found some cool features hiding in plain sight. One of those is the Canvas.drawImage() api call. Here is the description on the draft site. 3.10 Images To draw images onto the canvas, the drawImage method can be used.
The api lets you take the contents of specific HTML elements and draw them into a canvas, and the 3rd element in that list is just begging to be abused. Blowing apart fragments of video Click around the video frame to blow up that part of the video, the exploded pieces will continue to play the video inside them. 3D Video This demo in particular runs really well inside webkit based browsers, but not so much in Firefox. *Update* – I’ve changed the ogg video to be 640 x 360, prepare to see firefox weep Lessons learned There’s a couple hints I found out along the way that are good to know if you want to play around with drawing video. Secondly, don’t try copying individual pixels around. Make3D --- convert your image into 3d automatically. Bitmap3D_twoPics.