http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/ Engadget Comments for Researchers teach computers to turn 2D images into 3D http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/Jun 15th 2006 11:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/Jun 15th 2006 11:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/Jun 15th 2006 11:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/Jun 15th 2006 11:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/Jun 15th 2006 11:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/
Hmm, or even better, Google takes pics from cities and uses them to make their online DB of the city's buildings so when your in-car navi system links wirelessly to google maps it shows you virtually driving through the city, with decent representations of the buildings and landmarks too. Might make driving directions more intuitive.]]>Jun 15th 2006 11:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/Jun 15th 2006 11:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/Jun 15th 2006 11:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/Jun 16th 2006 12:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/
This isn't my site, but here's some information about that old program. I think I still have the floppies for this laying about. Did pretty much the same thing. From picture to 3D with auto-texture mapping.

http://www.canoma.com/]]>Jun 16th 2006 12:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/Jun 16th 2006 12:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/I for one welcome the new digitized University Center. Our digital entities need sustanance and TBA movies too.]]>Jun 16th 2006 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/

Which is why it's good idea to welcome them.

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"I, for one, welcome our (variable) overlords."

It's actually a pop-culture reference. Futurama if I'm not mistaken.

/Though I probably am
//Fark.com says slashies are fun!]]>Jun 16th 2006 1:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/Jun 16th 2006 1:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/Jun 16th 2006 2:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/
Now, if only we had had this when building the Red Team for DARPA Grand Challenge :/]]>Jun 16th 2006 2:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/
As to why you'd want a 3D model of a building that already exists, you might want to put it in a different location, or have it get destroyed when the aliens arrive, etc.]]>Jun 16th 2006 3:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/

Wasn't it giant ant overlords?]]>Jun 16th 2006 4:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/but foremost is the work that paul debevec did on this in the late nineties, allowing image based modelling for the environments in the now infamous "bullet time" scenes in the first matrix.

http://www.debevec.org/Research/VDTM/

http://www.realviz.com/products/im/index.php]]>Jun 16th 2006 5:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/Jun 16th 2006 6:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/
If you scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the link to the URL where they've got animations, it doesn't look so messed up. Looks neat.]]>Jun 16th 2006 6:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/
And Google Earth should license this technology to create 3D buildings that look like the real ones.]]>Jun 16th 2006 7:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/Jun 16th 2006 8:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/Jun 16th 2006 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/
CMU represent!
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Oh, I guess the research is cool too]]>Jun 16th 2006 10:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/Jun 16th 2006 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/15/researchers-teach-computers-to-turn-2d-images-into-3d/
http://old.siggraph.org/publications/newsletter/v33n4/contributions/debevec.html

Additional interesting items of exploration in this abstract are the use of "image based" lighting techniques and the inclusion of High Dynamic Range(HDR) images.

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Could Google and our Pics be used to create a virtual 3D world?

Hmmm.

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