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Virtual Vacation

US News | Science Discoveries by U.S. News and World Report

Oct 20, 20091:30Science & Medicine

A new computer algorithm developed at the University of Washington uses hundreds of thousands of tourist photos to automatically reconstruct entire cities in about a day. The tool harnesses the increasingly large digital...

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Virtual Vacation is an episode from US News | Science Discoveries by U.S. News and World Report. A new computer algorithm developed at the University of Washington uses hundreds of thousands of tourist photos to automatically reconstruct en...

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A new computer algorithm developed at the University of Washington uses hundreds of thousands of tourist photos to automatically reconstruct entire cities in about a day. The tool harnesses the increasingly large digital photo collections available on photo-sharing Web sites such as Flickr.

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Published Oct 20, 2009 and 1:30 long