[IxDA Discuss] A MS Photosynth possibility

[Manish Pillewar]

http://labs.live.com/photosynth/ 


A lot of WOW factor for sure!

Interesting: Microsoft says:

"a new technology from Microsoft Live Labs that takes
a large collection of photos of a place or an object,
analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a
reconstructed three-dimensional space"

What i wonder is:
If there is an algorithm that can analyze photographs
for its similarities and display them, how far we from
seeing a search engine for images - by images? Paste
an image in a box and search for similar images
(instead of a typical text based search for images?).
Wouldn't that make things a lot easier?

Blink!
Manish G Pillewar
Sr. User Interface Designer
User Experience Design
Bangalore
+91 9880566951

btw: If i rem it correctly that's St. Marks Cathedral
in Venice. Awesome place!

Original Post from HCIIDC by Subhan M Ali:

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Date:	Thu, 7 Jun 2007 12:13:38 +0530
Subject:	[hciidc] Photosynth

Microsoft labs has come up with an interesting concept
to view images <a la
flickr>

a different look

at

*http://labs. live.com/ photosynth/
default.html*<http://labs. live.com/ photosynth/
default.html>

for video..

*http://www.youtube. com/watch?
v=s-DqZ8jAmv0*<http://www.youtube. com/watch?
v=s-DqZ8jAmv0>

regards

Subhan


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