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29th July 2009 - Link Blog

Building Rome in a Day (via) “The ﬁrst system capable of city-scale reconstruction from unstructured photo collections”—computer vision techniques used to construct 3D models of cities using 10s of thousands of photos from Flickr. Reminiscent of Microsoft PhotoSynth.

Posted 29th July 2009 at 3:41 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 29th July 2009.

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