3D Time-Lapse Reconstruction from Internet Photos

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Previous discussion from 7 months ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9558976

Whenever I see a trolley go by in SF with dozens of people simultaneously filming video (and that trolley runs dozens of times a day) I always wonder about how well we could reconstruct our worlds digitally with everything we've got now.

That's from the same researchers, but is a different project. Note that this is 3D.

http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/timelapse/

http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/timelapse3d/

Seems like we've got to be pretty close to Blade Runner home photos now, where you take a couple of pictures from two angles and then can use probability to look behind things, etc. The NFL sometimes shows the ability to blend two camera angles together by time-locking them.

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