There is a keen interest in the ability to construct a 3D Model from a single image.
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have developed a program that allows a computer to automatically generate 3-D reconstructions of scenes based on a single image.
Visit the Automatic Photo Pop-up page at
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/%7Edhoiem/projects/popup/index.html.
Read the Press Release for more information.
http://www.cmu.edu/PR/releases06/060613_3d.html
February 13th, 2006
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Trimensions, a company specialized in close-range photogrammetry, has developed a tool to integrate three-dimensional models into Google Earth with great precision and detail.
http://www.trimensions.fr/frameset.htm
They provide a link that enables you to see the results of a model located in Paris, via Google Earth.
http://www.trimensions.fr/_private/ILOT_PARIS.kmz
In another appraoch, the REALVIZ ImageModeller allows you to create 3D scenes from photographs.
http://www.realviz.com/products/im/index.php
Instant Scene Modeler (iSM) uses a pair of cameras to observe a scene. Each camera is looking at the scene from a slightly different angle and iSM can measure distances to thousands of points in each scene. When the cameras move. iSM will match new images, compute the camera motion and generate a model from the calculated 3D Data.
More details at
http://sm.mdacorporation.com/what_we_do/ism.html
Also noted an interesting article in Desktop Engineering discussing Virtual Prototyping. Read it at
http://www.deskeng.com/articles/aaaapn.htm
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