Anybody remembers MetaCreations Canoma released in 1999?
Worked also with only one photo.
Extending this into using known 3rd party geometries of identifiable objects instead of reconstructing by hand seems like a very logical extension in retrospect.
As cited in the paper and by Canoma this 1996 paper by Paul Debevec is really where it all started: Modeling and Rendering Architecture from Photographs:
A hybrid geometry- and image-based approach
Worked also with only one photo.
Extending this into using known 3rd party geometries of identifiable objects instead of reconstructing by hand seems like a very logical extension in retrospect.
http://www.canoma.com/
http://digitalurban.blogspot.de/2006/12/great-software-from-...
As cited in the paper and by Canoma this 1996 paper by Paul Debevec is really where it all started: Modeling and Rendering Architecture from Photographs: A hybrid geometry- and image-based approach
http://www.pauldebevec.com/Research/debevec-csd-96-893.pdf
Still very impressive Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPhGEiM_6lM