Post by Luc Vincent, Uber Tech
LeadWhile he was working on his PhD at the
University of Maryland,
Abhijit Ogale
developed a set of advanced computer vision tools in
Matlab. He made this set of
tools available for download from the UMD web site, and quickly noticed that his site was
getting quite a bit of traffic. In fact, earlier this year the software was getting downloaded
about 1,000 times per month. Not bad for a fairly esoteric piece of software...
Today, we are very pleased to announce that thanks to a grant from Google,
Abhijit has turned this useful Matlab code into an even more useful open source,
state-of-the-art 3D vision library,
OpenVis3d, hosted on
Google Code. The
overall goal of the project is to provide a library of efficient 3D computer vision routines
for image and video processing. This library will eventually include routines for dense stereo
matching, optical flow (motion) estimation, occlusion detection, egomotion (3D self-motion)
estimation, structure from motion, and a lot more -- we hope you find it useful!
By the way, in case it isn't obvious, Google is very interested in computer
vision and graphics. We recently attended
Siggraph'06 in Boston, where we
demonstrated the latest and greatest versions of
Google Earth and
SketchUp. But we're doing a lot more than that
- we're also hiring talented computer vision and graphics people -- see
this
page for more information. In fact, Abhijit Ogale recently joined Google!
