Transforming ordinary photos into clean, high-resolution 3D worlds

It is no longer unusual for computers to display our world in three dimensions. 3D scanners can scan faces, buildings or entire landscapes, and the data can be used to generate 3D models. In most cases though, this process is very complex. In the 'Harvest4D' research project, led by TU Wien (under the direction of Prof. Michael Wimmer from TU Wien's Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms), algorithms are therefore being developed that can be used to generate these three-dimensional worlds