Research Summary: 

• Aims to help enable a user-generated content revolution for 3D  
• Would allow amateurs to create detailed 3D models with a digital camera  
• Takes advantage of the capabilities that future PCs will have to run computationally intense computer vision algorithms

This research project prototypes future applications wherein photography can be used to allow amateurs to create rich 3D visual content. In the future, users will be able to create detailed 3D models and lifelike avatars from real-life images without any special equipment other than a standard digital camara and a PC. This project is being conducted at Intel Labs China and is one example of research at Intel aimed at accelerating the transition to a 3D Internet.