Viewfinder: Aligning Photographs into the 3D World of Google Earth
05:53 AM / 04 Jun 2008 Filed in: photography
| technology
The folks at USC’s Interactive Media
Division have got a cool project underway.
Viewfinder.
Their stated objective is "to provide a
straightforward procedure for geo-locating
photos of any kind" and specify that "a
10-year-old should be able to find the pose of
a photo in less than a minute". If that still
sounds like a bit like technical gobbley-goop,
here is the idea: You take a picture of
someone in front of a landmark. Now you want
to superimpose that photo into a 3D world so
that the image is perfectly aligned to the
model.
Did that help? No??? OK, then watch their video (below) and you will get the idea immediately.
Did that help? No??? OK, then watch their video (below) and you will get the idea immediately.