SIGGRAPH 2006 - Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques conference

SIGGRAPH 2006 - Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques conference

The 33rd International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques will begin in Boston today and last until August 3, 2006. Photographing Long Scenes with Multi-Viewpoint Panoramas, one of the conference papers, describes a system for producing panoramas of long scenes, such as the facades of buildings along a city street, from a relatively sparse set of  images captured with a handheld digital camera that is moved along the scene. Another paper, Photo Tourism, Exploring Photo Collections in 3D discusses a system for browsing large collections of photographs in 3D...