TED: How PhotoSynth can connect the world's images | Blaise Agüera y Arcas

The video introduces Seadragon, a technology for interacting with large visual data, and Photosynth, which combines Seadragon with computer vision to create spatially meaningful image arrangements. It demonstrates applications in media, mapping, and a computational reconstruction of Notre Dame using images from Flickr. The potential for linking global images to enhance semantic richness and create virtual models of the Earth is discussed.

What is Seadragon and how does it enhance the interaction with visual data?

Describe the significance of the 300 megapixel scan from the Library of Congress mentioned in the text.

How does the technology discussed in the text aim to improve the reading experience of digital content?

What role does computer vision play in the Photosynth project?

Explain how the collective memory of visually representing the Earth is created through the technology discussed.

Discuss the concept of emergent models as described in the context of the technology presented.

What are the potential implications of linking images together based on their content?