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摘要

Wish you were here? Bryan Russell at the University of Washington in Seattle and colleagues have developed the first online system that automatically creates annotated 3D reconstructions of tourist sites. To build up the visualisation, off-the-shelf software grabs images from online photo sites such as Flickr and stitches them together in three dimensions. The system uses Wikipedia entries for the site to annotate the visual model. Users can zoom in on a feature, or, where a narrative sequentially describes a site, they can embark on a fly-through to visualise the description.