3D sketch with a graphic tablet

This system allow to manipulate in 3D, 2D drawn curves. It seems to be simple to use, with automatic symmetry tools. But do not allow to manipulate control point of the drawn curves. But when you draw with a pen you cannot do it also... without use a rubber.

Here a video that show the workflow :

ILoveSketch from Seok-Hyung Bae on Vimeo.

Source : ILoveSketch

Adobe Photoshop CS5 - PatchMatch

Here a video that gives detail about the implementation of the PatchMatch tool that allow to do content aware image editing.

It's require some user interaction in some case, but it starts to be powerful

Source : CS5.org

Stereo vision: algorithms and applications

If you want an excellent review of formulation of stereovision/depth computation with a state of the art like approach you need to read this.

  "Stereo vision: algorithms and applications"

Source :Website of Stefano Mattoccia

Photosculpt (From a stereo pair to dense Depth map)

I want introduce the PhotoSculpt software. A soft that allow from two images ( a stereo pair) to obtain depth/normal/color maps. The process seems to work on a multi-resolution approach. (Something like a dynamic approach or ...) No more information about how it works.

Obviously the computed depth are not metrics. But the results looks good but do not works on all stereo image pair. The stereo pair seems require a viewpoint angle of 10 to 20 °.

On other it works quite well (it's a pity that the soft have made a confusion on small blobby things)

Source : PhotoSculpt et 3DVF

ICE Is 1.3.3 and Now Synthy

Microsoft ICE is the Microsoft free solution to compute panoramic images.

What's new in the 1.3.3 version (A lot of stuff !)

1. - Accelerated stitching on multiple CPU cores
2. - Ability to publish, view, and share panoramas on the Photosynth web site
3. - Support for "structured panoramas" — panoramas consisting of hundreds of photos taken in a rectangular grid of rows and columns (usually by a robotic device like the GigaPan tripod heads)
4. - No image size limitation — stitch gigapixel panoramas
5. - Support for input images with 8 or 16 bits per component

Additional features

1. - State-of-the-art stitching engine
2. - Automatic exposure blending
3. - Choice of planar, cylindrical, or spherical projection
4. - Orientation tool for adjusting panorama rotation
5. - Automatic cropping to maximum image area
6. - Native support for 64-bit operating systems
7. - Wide range of output formats, including JPEG, TIFF, BMP, PNG, HD Photo, and Silverlight
   

So what are missing :

1. - Fish eye images are not supported,
2. - HDR 32 bits,
3. - MAC/Linux builds.

PS Move (The PS3 WII like sensor)

A lot of names have been seen on the web for the object : Arc, Gem, Sphere. But the official name is Playstation Move. This accessory allow movement detection for the PS3 and was officially shown at GDC2010. This device is a response of Sony over the Microsoft Natal and Nintendo Wii Mote.

Here some videos show the device at work :

The guy that play at the FPS seems quite boring experience.. It do not move at all.. No immersion inside the action... What novelties beside a classic gamepad ?

The following video is clearly more fun : A real interaction is visible ( over the ball detection and sensor reactivity)

And more interesting the player smile... that it's share a good user experience.

On some video on the web we can see two "Move" pad on the hand player that show that the used camera can track different Light Ball so different "Move" device.

VisualSize comes back with PhotoModel3D

VisualSize share their last results "PhotoModel3D" and compare them to Bundler alternative.

They compare : RunTime and 3D points computed.

They cannot test accuracy of the method. A lot of bad 3D points seems to be estimated.

It looks like a Bundler + PMVS couple.

But's it cool to see alternative to the PhotoSynth machine...