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.

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