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Stanford's New Website Converts Your Photos to 3D
An anonymous reader writes to tell us that Stanford has a new website that not only shows you how cool their new 3-d modeling system is, but actually allows you to give it a try with your own photos. The system can take a 2-d still image and estimate a detailed 3-d structure which you can navigate. "For each small homogeneous patch in the image, we use a Markov Random Field (MRF) to infer a set of "plane parameters" that capture both the 3-d location and 3-d orientation of the patch. The MRF, trained via supervised learning, models both image depth cues as well as the relationships between different parts of the image. Other than assuming that the environment is made up of a number of small planes, our model makes no explicit assumptions about the structure of the scene; this enables the algorithm to capture much more detailed 3-d structure than does prior art (such as Saxena et al., 2005, Delage et al., 2005, and Hoiem et el., 2005), and also give a much richer experience in the 3-d flythroughs created using image-based rendering, even for scenes with significant non-vertical structure."
I tried it - it converts your face into a Mars flyby.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
Damn - I was hoping for someone to upload a picture of a pair of breasts to see how well it worked.
I live in constant fear of the Coming of the Red Spiders.
Dammit, and all this time I've been decrying the impossible magical 3-d photo processing in Blade Runner! Curse my skepticism!
--Tedb0t
Limina.Log
Yep. I wonder if we can get a 3-D image of their server room on fire.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
It is not slashdotted. The server crashed after I gave it an image of the impossible triangle.
An anonymous reader writes to tell us that Slashdot has a new website that not only shows you how cool their new hardware melting system is, but actually allows you to give it a try with your own servers.
My 0.02 cents
And what, dear Slashdot reader, would your reference be to see if they look real enough or not?
Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
This would be sweet if they took all the imagery from google maps/streets and build out little virtual cities with no headed pedestrians and 5 legged dogs.
High Speed Connection + p2p program = lots of references
Hell, you need a reference? I've got a few gigs of references here for ya...
I live in constant fear of the Coming of the Red Spiders.
My mom's just upstairs.
Since both the processing engine and the article are hosted on the same server, I can't even read about it. Anyone got a mirror to some sample input/output?
(No goatse renderings, please)
I only post comments when someone on the internet is wrong.
Sorry, couldn't resist... uh-oh there goes my karma!
It seems like their hardware is okay.
The server is even giving ICMP replies.
The webserver service hosting image processing software on the other hand...
went *POOF*
Tracing the path to make3d.stanford.edu
make3d.stanford.edu CNAME ai.stanford.edu
ai.stanford.edu A 171.64.68.10
1 10.0.1.13 (10.0.1.13) 0.131 ms 0.096 ms 0.047 ms
2 unknown.xeex.net (216.151.129.45) 0.605 ms 0.572 ms 0.734 ms
3 eq-exch.bb-peer01.cook.il.ena.net (206.223.119.116) 12.525 ms 7.000 ms 7.878 ms
4 137.164.129.2 (137.164.129.2) 59.882 ms 51.876 ms 51.860 ms
5 te4-1--160.tr01-plalca01.transitrail.net (137.164.129.34) 69.218 ms 69.343 ms 69.157 ms
6 calren-trcust.plalca01.transitrail.net (137.164.131.254) 73.582 ms 76.500 ms 78.923 ms
7 dc-stan--svl-dc1-ge.cenic.net (137.164.23.38) 76.226 ms 70.215 ms 70.236 ms
8 bbra-rtr.Stanford.EDU (171.64.1.134) 70.670 ms 70.382 ms 73.852 ms
9 * * *
10 ai.Stanford.EDU (171.64.68.10) 72.485 ms 75.918 ms 77.823 ms
Other than assuming that the environment is made up of a number of small planes, our model makes no explicit assumptions about the structure of the scene;
Darn. My photos tend to be mostly of helicopters and boats.
Well no matter how bad they look, they'll still look better than mine.
Brian.
You know you're a geek when someone makes a geek joke and you start playing forensics to validate it...
I never thought I would see anybody spell /. wrong!
Take off every 'sig' !!
It's not a spelling error. He's obviously a Windows user.
How dare you be so modest!! You conceited bastard!!