Pix4D converts your 2D aerial photographs in 3D maps on the fly (video)

Assuming that you have a Sensefly Swinglet CAM or some other high resolution camera equipped UAV, could be just a few minutes turning your plain old maps 2D aerial photos in global 3D. Pix4D, a new program that comes out of the EPFL - the same school that brought us this race of altruistic robots - take takes images using an air probe to make maps for 3D in the cloud in just 30 minutes. Users upload images taken with their flying machines, in point Pix4D comes into action, define points of high contrast photo and pasting them together based on these points. Below represents a model 3D, graphics overlays and spits a map in Google Earth-style. What is with this 4 d business? Thus, its developers claim that users can easily view the progression of any model through the implementation of its probe of Sensefly when appropriate, throwing the additional level of time mixing. You can see the fruits of the work of Pix4D in the video after the break.

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