McEs, A Hacker Life: PhotoSynth

Monday, April 23, 2007

PhotoSynth

Interesting research from MS Live Labs: PhotoSynth.

Comments:

Old, and heavily overrated.
It throws away a lot of pictures (where it isn't sure where to place them), needs *massive* overlaps and quite some computation.
It will never work with holiday photography, but you need a pro taking the photos or use some archive such as flickr.

Granted, for such a set of photographs it is impressive, but the claims of turning this quickly into an end user product are marketing blah-blah.

The actual research was probably done at the University of Washington,
http://phototour.cs.washington.edu/

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Anonymous : April 23, 2007 9:37 AM

Maybe old, maybe overrated, but still cool. You gotta hand it to whoever came up with that, the last time i stopped and said 'wow' to something i saw on a computer was xgl/compiz ;)

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Anonymous : April 23, 2007 11:33 AM

HOw do you un-install the firefox extension? it hides from the add-ons dialog :-(

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Anonymous : April 23, 2007 6:34 PM

Uninstall *what* firefox extension?!?!

As for comparison to xgl/compiz, there was a slight difference, that xgl/compiz was real, as opposed to PhotoSynth that just works in the lab... But otherwise, yes, I was like "Wow" too.

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behdad : April 23, 2007 6:37 PM

oh I see, it installs as a plugin instead of an extension, nsiPhotosynth.xpt in firefox\components directory and dlls in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\Photosynth

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Anonymous : April 23, 2007 6:57 PM

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