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Building Rome in a Day

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Building Rome in a Day
We present a system that can match and reconstruct 3D scenes from extremely large collections of photographs such as those found by searching for a given city (e.g., Rome) on Internet photo sharing sites. Our system uses a collection of novel parallel distributed matching and reconstruction algorithms, designed to maximize parallelism at each stage in the pipeline and minimize serialization bottlenecks. It is designed to scale gracefully with both the size of the problem and the amount of available computation. We have experimented with a variety of alternative algorithms at each stage of the pipeline and report on which ones work best in a parallel computing environment. Our experimental results demonstrate that it is now possible to reconstruct cities consisting of 150K images in less than a day on a cluster with 500 compute cores.
Sameer Agarwal, Noah Snavely, Ian Simon, Steven M.
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Updated 10 Jan 2010
Type Conference
Year 2009
Where ICCV
Authors Sameer Agarwal, Noah Snavely, Ian Simon, Steven M. Seitz and Richard Szeliski
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