Even though this is not really 3D it is still amazing for enhancing regular photos and letting you “walk through” them. One thing the system does not do is correct for the perspective, since it creates a simplified 3D standup backdrop and then just maps the actual photo over it without actually making any changes to it. From the site:
“Our system automatically constructs simple “pop-up” 3D models, like those one would find in a children’s book, out of a single outdoor image. The system labels each region of an outdoor image as ground, vertical, or sky. Line segments fitted to the ground-vertical boundary in the image and an estimate of the horizon’s position provide the necessary information to determine where to “cut” and “fold” in the image. The model is then popped up, and the image is texture mapped onto the model. This work is part of an on-going effort in Geometrically Coherent Image Interpretation. In our ICCV’05 paper Geometric Context from a Single Image, we provide a quantitative analysis of our system and extend our work by subclassifying vertical regions and using the geometric labels as context for object detection. In our newest CVPR’06 paper, Putting Objects in Perspective, we show how 3D reasoning can be used to aid in object detection.”
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Software Transforms 2D Photos to a “simplified 3D ‘popup’ Environment” Automatically
September 30th, 2006 at 4 pm. No Comments - Category: Software -
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Photos: Shuttle and ISS passing in Front of the Sun
September 30th, 2006 at 3 pm. No Comments - Category: Space -
Taken by a french astronomer, quite stunning to look at:
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NASA Scientist(?) Opens Up, Believe it or Not (Clip)
September 28th, 2006 at 2 am. No Comments - Category: Fun, Movies, Space, UFO, Uncategorized -
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DPR (Dynamic Physical Rendering) Research at Intel: Touchable, Feelable Nano holograms using “Claytronics”
September 28th, 2006 at 2 am. No Comments - Category: Computer, Internet, Science, Software, Tech -
Imagine you could touch a hologram of anything you choose to create: Maybe a live football game with the little 2 inch players running across your “field”, a person you are having a conversation with over the internet, etc. Amazing stuff is being researched over at Intel. It is called “Dynamic Physical Rendering” (DPR). Read on. -
What the guys at the NSA are reading
September 28th, 2006 at 2 am. No Comments - Category: Uncategorized -
Wired Magazine reports: “”This is one of the first glimpses we have had into NSA’s own library — and it’s a safe bet there are some gems in there,” said Secrecy News editor Steven Aftergood. Titles include “NSA in the Cyberpunk Future: A Somewhat Educated Guess at Things to Come” (1996), “I Was a Cryptologic Corporal” (1983), “Inference and Cover Stories” (1993), “Handy-Dandy Field Site History: Fifty Years of Field Operations, 1945-1995,” “The Fallacy of the One-Time-Pad Excuse” (1969), “Meteor Burst Communications: An Ignored Phenomenon?” (1990) and “KAL 007 Shootdown: A View From (redacted)”.” Entire Article.
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Lizard Saliva against Diabetes
September 28th, 2006 at 2 am. No Comments - Category: Medicine -
“If we needed another reason to stop the extinction of animals and plants around the world, the new medication derived from the saliva of the giant Gila monster desert lizard may be one. In three companion articles published Tuesday, September 26, 2006, in The Arizona Republic, Phoenix’s daily newspaper, reporter Connie Midey examined the excitement about a new diabetes medication based on the venomous saliva of the Gila monster. The creature is native to the Sonoran Desert of the American Southwest and northern Mexico, and a protein in its venom is the source for the new medication Byetta, manufactured Eli Lilly and Amylin. Not to be confused with the hallucinogenic and psychedelic venom of the Sonoran Desert toad, the substance in Byetta is a synthetic form of the protein which is secreted from grooves in the Gila monster’s teeth.” The rest of the article over at UFODigest.
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