We all know that the online photosharing made a remarkable change in the way common people began to use the internet.The internet has now become a galactic empire inhabited by trillions of images from all over the world.But the mere bidemnsional digital dreams now will be transformed into the elated 3D ones.The hidden labs of the software titan, Microsoft, is forging the wizadry.Photosynth is an amazing new technology from Microsoft Live Labs that will change the way you think about digital photos forever.Microsoft's Photosynth takes collections of images, analyses them for similarities, and then displays them in a reconstructed 3D space.The system builds a 3D model just from a raw collection of photographs.
The technology works by scanning collections of photographs, which can be taken from different cameras at different times. It picks out distinctive features in each image and cross-references them against the other photographs, checking for similarities. This allows it to pinpoint a feature's 3D position and to also calculate where the position of the camera would have been when the picture was taken. One of the questions we’re often asked is when people will be able to create their own 3D collections. This is something we’re absolutely committed to but will not be available in our first external release. Photosynth currently requires a large number of CPU cycles to perform the matching between images and for larger datasets this can take hours or sometimes days of processing. We are exploring a number of methods for drastically reducing this processing time but want to ensure that people realize that we’re a technology that is evolving in real-time and we want to incrementally build towards the vision of a world of interconnected images through collaboration and participation from the online community.
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