Make3D: Convert your 2D images to 3D online (Video)
January 29th, 2008 at 04:29am ibrahimo
“Make3D” is an algorithm developed by two Stanford computer scientists, which can convert any 2D image to 3D model, the model is made in flash so you can fly around and explore the generated 3D model.
“The algorithm uses a variety of visual cues that humans use for estimating the 3-D aspects of a scene, If we look at a grass field, we can see that the texture changes in a particular way as it becomes more distant.” said Ashutosh Saxena, a doctoral student in computer science who developed the Make3d website with Andrew Ng, an assistant professor of computer science.
After all the website is impressive although still in experimental phase and has few bugs, but you can fully convert any image from 2D to 3D but it is best to convert a scenery image rather than an image that includes people because it still does not work well with people.
Here is a video to give you an idea what its all about:
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