Disney Research Develops Algorithm to Build 3D Scenes from Regular 2D Photographs

Posted on July 23, 2013

Disney researchers have developed a computer algorithm that can analyze patterns of light and darkness in regular photographs and use them to create 3D reconstructions. Disney says, "Our algorithm first computes reliable depth estimates specifically around object boundaries instead of interior regions, by operating on individual light rays instead of image patches. More homogeneous interior regions are then processed in a fine-to-coarse procedure rather than the standard coarse-to-fine approaches. At no point in our method is any form of global optimization performed."

The first video is from Slate News. The second video is the full video from Disney Research. The research paper, "Scene Reconstruction from High Spatio-Angular Resolution Light Fields," can be found here. Take a look:


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