Photosynth Visualization System

This is a very sexy demo of a few really interesting technologies for viewing and understanding large - really large - sets of visual data. Photosynth, the application behind the demo, was developed by Seadragon and purchased by Microsoft about a year ago, and is now available as a demo on the Microsoft Labs site.

They’re combining computer vision with spatial awareness and analysis to stitch together photos from virtually any source - high resolution digital SLR, camera phone, satellite, municipal camera, etc. - and allow a viewer to zoom in or out from any point in the set with which one or more photos are associated. In the demo, they scraped Flickr for photos tagged “Notre Dame” and the results are stunning.

Category: Visualization || Tags: microsoft, photosynth, Visualization ||