Making 3D Models from Video Clips 103
BoingBoing is covering an interesting piece of software called VideoTrace that allows you to easily create 3D models from the images in video clips. "The user interacts with VideoTrace by tracing the shape of the object to be modeled over one or more frames of the video. By interpreting the sketch drawn by the user in light of 3D information obtained from computer vision techniques, a small number of simple 2D interactions can be used to generate a realistic 3D model."
Terrible link (Score:5, Informative)
A quick search turns up the project homepage http://www.acvt.com.au/research/videotrace/ [acvt.com.au]
Software for 2D images for 3D models is not new (Score:5, Informative)
The only thing "new" about this is using video as the input without having to grab the individual frames yourself.
Never let reality temper imagination
Re:Software for 2D images for 3D models is not new (Score:5, Informative)
I've been waiting for this technology to go big on eBay for a decade... maybe this'll be the year.
Youtube (Score:5, Informative)