Some people at Berkeley are currently doing fast automated 3D model generation like this. Looks quite nice: http://www-video.eecs.berkeley.edu/~frueh/3d/ |
My opinion is that they are improving on the January annoucement of A9 (Amazon's sister company) on 2D pictures for the Yellow Pages.
See http://www.a9.com/-/company/media/index.jsp#current
To go one step further and compete better , Google wants 3D instead of 2D |