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Updates to Photosynth – Poorman’s LiDAR? – Part2

So it looks like Microsoft Labs upgraded Photosynth (to 2.0109.415.1554 – whew!) earlier this month, adding “highlights” (links to pictures of interest) and finalizing their port to Silverlight. You can read more about the updates here – but unfortunately there’s still no “export” functionality and no mention of its possibility.

While I haven’t given up on structure from motion as a PoorMan’s LiDAR, I have decided the point cloud is extremely messy and this is a major obstacle taht require quite a bit of thought. While I still prefer using Bundler, MS’s Photosynth makes publishing these synths quite a bit easier, and they just look cool. So here are a couple of the test syths I’ve been working with from around the Fort and from a recent trip to the Black Hills.  Enjoy!

A chip pile…

Tree locations in a woodlot near the house…

A small ponderosa pine patch off the balck hills…

A willow at the school across the street (notice the deatils on the fork)…

Logs on a logging deck at the mill in Spearfish, SD…

~ by bi0m3trics on April 22, 2009.

2 Responses to “Updates to Photosynth – Poorman’s LiDAR? – Part2”

  1. Hi,

    I had not had the chance to look at the synths. They are really cool and informative. So, how would one apply this in a Timber program, lets say on a USFS Ranger District?

    Thank you,
    Vener

    Vener said this on August 15th, 2009 at 12:58 pm

  2. [...] how does this relate to my previous posts you may ask? Well, the proposal has a heavy terrestrial lidar component (which the reviewers [...]

    » Not dead yet! – Poormans’ Lidar – Part 3 forestdynamics.com said this on April 15th, 2010 at 8:42 am

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