Researchers at the UW are taking photo-stitching - the photo tourism technology behind Microsoft's cool Photosynth service - to the next level, using it to scour public photos and build 3D models of entire cities.Photosynth does the same thing for buildings or landmarks - assembling Flickr images of Trevi Fountain to build a 3D rendering that can be explored from different angles. It was developed at the UW and licensed to Microsoft in 2006.Today the UW is calling out the work, by Sameer Agarw...
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