Photosynth

What is photosynth? Photosynth is a new technology developed by Microsoft Labs, initiated at the University of Washington as a photo-tourism application. It takes a large collection of photos of a place, or an object and analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed 3D form. Personally I believe that PhotoSynth will change teh way we percieve photography, as flicker, and photobucket were revolutionary in their times, PhotoSynth will be soon. The software is powered by SeaDragon, and it allows for seamless transitions between pictures, and zooming in and out, which allows the viewer to see where a picture was taken, in relation to other pictures. Each photo is processed by computer "vision algorithms" to extract hundreds of distinctive features, the photos that do share similar features are linked to one another, as a result the 3D position can be calculated, and the photo will be assigned a place in he 3D location. One of the major strengths of photosynth is its speed, it allows the viewer to brows collections of many thousands of high definition photos, as if it would be one image. The only restraint is the bandwidth, as well as the user screen size. During the presentation I would like to use power point slides, as well use a tech demo of photosynth provided by the Microsoft Live Labs, in order to provide a more enjoyable experience to the viewers. . The tech demo can be fuond here. A demonstration of SeaDragon, and PhotoSynth video: