Guest Editorial
• advances in multi-view stereo reconstruction have led to impressive results in recovering geometricallyand photometrically-complex shapes from large collections of photographs; • image-based modeling and rendering techniques have demonstrated the potential of creating photo-realistic simulations of real scenes; and • the area of structure-from-motion has evolved into a body of results related to the representation of 3D space and its camera views in terms of collections of functions representing both the geometric and photometric variability of image space.