I wrote this software and thought that I should reply to some of these threads to clear up any misconceptions about how it works.
It basically uses the parallax between the consecutive images in order to determine the depth from the camera of each point in the scene.
You can create full polygon models as evidenced by the.ply downloads on the site. There is also a ply2dae convertor there if that suits you better and the in built view is displaying texture obj models (trickier to download because there are 3 files).
You can do full surrounding object models but in the interest of not overloading our server with 1000's of huge images we have limited the upload to small number as a bit of taster. I have run sub-millimeter accurate reconstructions with hundreds of images.
The software is heavily accelerated by GPU processing and would be one of the quickest and most accurate incarnations of such technology available in the research literature.
The underlying tech is very similar to photosynth but we have gone a step further and reconstructed the 3D models of the scene as opposed to some sort of 3D mosaic. We are hoping to commercialise the tech so we have not published the core algorithms. Any one interested?
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I wrote this software and thought that I should reply to some of these threads to clear up any misconceptions about how it works. It basically uses the parallax between the consecutive images in order to determine the depth from the camera of each point in the scene. You can create full polygon models as evidenced by the .ply downloads on the site. There is also a ply2dae convertor there if that suits you better and the in built view is displaying texture obj models (trickier to download because there are 3 files).
You can do full surrounding object models but in the interest of not overloading our server with 1000's of huge images we have limited the upload to small number as a bit of taster. I have run sub-millimeter accurate reconstructions with hundreds of images.
The software is heavily accelerated by GPU processing and would be one of the quickest and most accurate incarnations of such technology available in the research literature.
The underlying tech is very similar to photosynth but we have gone a step further and reconstructed the 3D models of the scene as opposed to some sort of 3D mosaic. We are hoping to commercialise the tech so we have not published the core algorithms. Any one interested?