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Microsoft Photosynth Turns Photo Collections to 3-D Space

Microsoft Live Labs has released a technology preview of an application named ‘Photosynth’, which takes a collection of pictures and creates a three-dimensional space for them by analysing the images and looking for similarities.

With Photosynth users can:

Walk or fly through a scene to see photos from any angle.
Zoom in or out of a photograph whether it’s megapixels or gigapixels in size
See where pictures were taken in relation to one another
Find similar photos to the one currently being viewed
Explore a custom tour.
Send a collection to a friend

Photosynth begins by processing an image and creating a point cloud that gives the image a unique identifier, a DNA-like profile that describes the features that have been recognised in the image.

With this ‘Image DNA’, Photosynth could show other photos that have similar features to the one currently being viewed.

Annotations, tags, or even URLs could one day be applied to an image and transferred to similar images.

Photosynth could connect your photographs into a seamless web of images and information, allowing users to browse a virtual universe of interconnected scenes that constantly evolves and changes over time.


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