Microsoft Live Labs – Photosynth

Posted on | July 30, 2006 | 1 Comment

as read on Michael Martine’s blog, Microsoft Live Labs is developing an innovative approach on organizing photo-collections. their tech-preview Photosynth claims to automatically organize photos in 3D-space by recognizing particular features like a window-frame, or a doorhandle in images. using algorithmic simulation of depth-perception, Photosynth calculates the 3D-positions for each of the images, which can then be browsed in a 3D-environment. if this seemingly-complicated algorithms work as good as the promo-video (highly recommended!) suggests, upcoming products using the Photosynth-technology (remember, this is a tech-preview) could be quite hot… just imagine connecting your holiday-photos of Venice with those of thousand other users all over the world – the resulting 3D-collage would be impressing.

if you want to stay up-2-date with Photosynth, the development-team has setup a blog – good to see that Robert Scoble definitely left his mark on Microsoft!

 

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