Researchers at the University of Washington 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 3-D models of entire cities.Photosynth does the same thing for buildings or landmarks -- assembling Flickr images of Trevi Fountain to build a 3-D 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 ou...
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