Israeli Researchers Debut Software That Extracts 3-D Objects From Photos | Singularity Hub
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One of major barriers to entry is the difficulty of generating the 3-D computer models that serve as the instruction sheets for printers.
In a paper they will present at Siggraph Asia in December, Ariel Shamir, of the Interdisciplinary Center at Herzliya, and Daniel Cohen-Or and Tao Chen of Tel Aviv University hope to knock that barrier down with software they’ve developed that allows the user to extract the beginnings of a 3-D model of an object from a single photograph.
“The key idea is that you could create 3D objects based only on single images,” Shamir told Singularity Hub. “We wanted a model that would be simple for almost anyone to use.”