Disney Algorithm Builds High-Res 3D Models From Ordinary Photos 80
Zothecula writes "Disney Research has developed an algorithm which can generate 3D computer models from 2D images in great detail, sufficient, it says, to meet the needs of video game and film makers. The technology requires multiple images to capture the scene from a variety of vantage points. The 3D model is somewhat limited in that it is only coherent within the field of view encompassed by the original images. It does not appear to fill in data"
Cheating (Score:4, Informative)
The technology requires multiple images to capture the scene from a variety of vantage points.
That's cheating.
Affine (Score:5, Informative)
The name of the algorithm is called 'affine reconstruction' and is a fairly well studied algorithm in computer vision. It is great that Disney and co. are releasing software to semi-automate the data input and reconstruction.
AutoCAD has a service for this (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.123dapp.com/catch [123dapp.com]
Re:I think this has been done for some time now (Score:5, Informative)
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?id=21350337&siteID=123112 [autodesk.com]
They have a cloud service that can make full 3D models from photos.
Re:Primitive, useless tech (Score:5, Informative)
Excuse me?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHepKd38pr0 [youtube.com] (Bladerunner)
Bitch, please.
Re:Affine (Score:4, Informative)
Possibly not for those particular use cases, but there certainly is already freely available software to do the "structure from motion" reconstruction trick; e.g., vSFM [washington.edu] -- an easy(FSVO)-to-use frontend for a couple of tools from different research projects.