{"id":13188,"date":"2020-08-04T08:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=13188"},"modified":"2020-08-03T22:11:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T05:11:15","slug":"wild-view-synthesis-work-from-google-cornell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/04\/wild-view-synthesis-work-from-google-cornell\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild view-synthesis work from Google + Cornell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Noah Snavely is the O.G. researcher whose thesis work gave rise to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Photosynth\">PhotoSynth<\/a> crowd-sourcing imaging tech with which Microsoft blew minds back in the mid-aughts. He&#8217;s been at Google for the last several years, and now his team of student researchers are <a href=\"https:\/\/research.cs.cornell.edu\/crowdplenoptic\/\">whipping up new magic<\/a> from large sets of tourist photos:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hello, view synthesis devotees. I invite you to some new work at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eccvconf?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@eccvconf<\/a>. We gather tourist photos of famous landmarks and learn a new neural 3D representation that can synthesize new views with natural, modifyable lighting. We call it &quot;Crowdsampling the Plenoptic Function&quot;. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8461yS1rAu\">pic.twitter.com\/8461yS1rAu<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Noah Snavely (@Jimantha) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jimantha\/status\/1289184432553734144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 31, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out this overview:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Crowdsampling The Plenoptic Function\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MAVFKWX8LYo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noah Snavely is the O.G. researcher whose thesis work gave rise to the PhotoSynth crowd-sourcing imaging tech with which Microsoft blew minds back in the mid-aughts. He&#8217;s been at Google for the last several years, and now his team of student researchers are whipping up new magic from large sets of tourist photos: Check out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13188"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13189,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13188\/revisions\/13189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}