Lab generates 3D model of city from public Flickr images
by ddini
A collaboration between Univ. of Washington, Cornell, and Microsoft has created a system that searches public photos of cities, and uses that data to extract a 3d model of that city.
Our experimental results demonstrate that it is now possible to reconstruct cities consisting of 150K images in less than a day on a cluster with 500 compute cores
Link to paper here.
Link to fancy videos here.