Virtual Vacation
- Author
- National Science Foundation
- Published
- Tue 20 Oct 2009
- Episode Link
- http://nsfgov.http.internapcdn.net/nsfgov_vitalstream_com/podcast/virtual_vacation.mp3
A new computer algorithm developed at the University of Washington uses hundreds of thousands of tourist photos to automatically reconstruct entire cities in about a day. The tool harnesses the increasingly large digital photo collections available on photo-sharing Web sites such as Flickr.
