Tour Into the Picture

Aaron Johnson, Computational Photography Project 5

This fifth project is really cool. We are taking a single picture, making some assumptions as to the geometry of the scene, and then using that geometry to re-render the scene from a novel view. Let's see what we have going on here.

First lets take a cool picture I got off of flickr:

First we select some control points on the back wall:

Then it automatically extracts the geometry:

Next we map the sides onto the walls of a virtual box, and can look at it from any angle:





Some other scenes. Here is one of the old Robotics Club room.






How about a cool alleyway also from Flickr






And the default example: