Photosynth - A way to survey a cave just by taking pictures!

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Photosynth - A way to survey a cave just by taking pictures !!!
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------ Original Message ------
Subject: Re: Photosynth question
To: "Ioannis Zenas" <zenas@vip.gr>
From: "Steve Seitz" <seitz@cs.washington.edu>
Send: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 20:13:12 -0700

Hi Zenas,
Yes, that's certainly possible. At this point we have not measured what the metric accuracy is, however.
-Steve

----- Original Message -----
From: Ioannis Zenas
To: seitz@cs.washington.edu
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 3:25 PM
Subject: Photosynth question

Would be possible to make measures with this software?
For example to analyse a video from a cave and given some initial values to produce the map of the cave?

Ioannis Zenas
admin@zenas.gr

----- Original Message -----
From: <addison@caveresource.com>
To: <texascavers@texascavers.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 10:58 PM
Subject: Photographic surveying


>
> Leave it to those sinister folks at Microsoft to come up with a way to survey a
> cave just by taking pictures....
>
> Many pictures of the cave + MS photosynth = 3D point cloud of cave
>
> http://labs.live.com/photosynth/default.html
>
>
> AA
>
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[batrotter]

That's really cool! Thanks for the heads up.