The June 2010 issue of IEEE Computer magazine is devoted to the theme of “Capturing the World.” The cover article describes UW CSE’s “Building Rome in a Day” project; the article, “Reconstructing Rome,” was authored by Sameer Agarwal (UW CSE -> Google), Yasutaka Furukawa (UW CSE -> Google), Noah Snavely (UW CSE -> Cornell University), Brian Curless (UW CSE), Steve Seitz (UW CSE), and Rick Szeliski (Microsoft Research; UW CSE affiliate professor).
“Community photo collections like Flickr offer a rich, ever-growing record of the world around us. New computer vision techniques can use photographs from these collections to rapidly build detailed 3D models.”