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Is there any open source code which does similar to MS Photosynth

Photosynth is a potent mixture of two independent breakthroughs: the ability to reconstruct the scene or object from a bunch of flat photographs, and the technology to bring that experience to virtually anyone over the Internet.

Using techniques from the field of computer vision, Photosynth examines images for similarities to each other and uses that information to estimate the shape of the subject and the vantage point the photos were taken from. With this information, we recreate the space and use it as a canvas to display and navigate through the photos.

Providing that experience requires viewing a LOT of data though—much more than you generally get at any one time by surfing someone’s photo album on the web. That’s where our Seadragon™ technology comes in: delivering just the pixels you need, exactly when you need them. It allows you to browse through dozens of 5, 10, or 100(!) megapixel photos effortlessly, without fiddling with a bunch of thumbnails and waiting around for everything to load. About this Release

Photosynth comes from a passionate little startup of two dozen people in Microsoft Live Labs. We are scientists, engineers, and designers working like crazy to deliver on Photosynth’s promise.

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You could just try a few queries on Google before posting a question.

chakrit
The whole point of SO is getting answers which Google would not give you. Answers that can be answered by Google are truly useless here.
liza
i was expecting people to share their experiences of using the various packages and alternatives here...and the differences between them
iceman
just to make it clear - the previous remark is in favor of your question (iceman) and referred to the remark made in this answer (which as stated could be looked up on Google). (as a wise Chinese man once said: "there are no stupid questions just stupid answers" )
liza
ah but then what happens if someone finds the answer here but searched in google, they would have then got an answer from SO, but Google gave it to them.
Jonathan
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The closest thing I've found to an open source Photosynth is Insight3D. It can be found here: http://insight3d.sourceforge.net/ While parts of Insight3D are open source and it can be downloaded for free, there are libraries included that are not open source such as the SIFT feature detector.

Bundler ( http://phototour.cs.washington.edu/bundler/ ) may also meet your needs. Bundler is very connected to Photosynth ( http://phototour.cs.washington.edu/ ) It requires a bit more to get it running. It doesn't have any GUI and has to be compiled.

freakTheMighty
this is great..let me try insight
iceman
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Have a look at Hugin . It is not what Photosynth does but it is a pretty powerful opensource for creating panoramic images.

liza