CSI Uses Photosynth to Solve TV Murder

Talk about great product placement! Photosynth was used to solve a murder on “CSI: NY” last night.  If you’ve been in a cave somewhere, Photosynth was developed in Microsoft Research Live Labs and is the hot topic of many MSDN blogs. It takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed three-dimensional space. The CSI team pieced together photos of a crime scenario using Photosynth, creating a three dimensional simulation that solved the crime. If you missed it, you can watch online.

CSI Season 4: Episode 18: Admissions. Following a ritzy private high school dance, the body of a guidance counselor is found with his face melted off. Through the science of Photosynth, make-up and mace, the CSIs find their perpetrator. It's one of the students who attended the dance. When the team tracks him down they come upon a disturbing discovery: The youthful looking student is not eighteen, rather in his thirties.  He has been working in collusion with another predator to lure unsuspecting coeds into their lair culminating in the ultimate betrayal.  Meanwhile, Mac gets pressure from above to catch the “Cabbie Killer” as the killer starts hunting his next victim.