Building Rome in a Day
Bulding Rome in a Day is part of the Community Photo Collections project at the University of Washington – GRAIL Lab. which explores the use of large scale internet image collections for furthering research in computer vision and graphics.
In this particular research the team is “considering the problem of reconstructing entire cities from images harvested from the web. Our aim is to build a parallel distributed system that downloads all the images associated with a city, say Rome, from Flickr.com. After downloading, it matches these images to find common points and uses this information to compute the three dimensional structure of the city and the pose of the cameras that captured these images. All this to be done in a day.”
