Google AI creates 3D scenes from tourists' photos
Tuesday 11 August 2020, 23:23 by Elja Trum | 3,717 views | 0 commentsThis article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.
A Google research team has used artificial intelligence to create 3D models of famous locations from random photos taken by tourists.
Thousands of photos of a subject are combined to create a 3D image. This lets you view the building in question from all sides and in all sorts of different lighting conditions.
The technique used for this is called NeRF, which stands for Neural Radiance Fields. The technique has been around for some time, but the researchers have now improved it so that it can handle different lighting conditions much better.
The technique is actually quite similar in principle to Microsoft's PhotoSynth technique. They were already very active with this 13 years ago.
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Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.
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