Carnegie Mellon Researchers Teach Computers To Perceive Three Dimensions in 2-D Image
 

Well i just came across this from CMU, a truly amazing piece of code, even though it looks sort of like an old video game, I'm sure it will improve in the future, but none the less, for something that was done automatically, its amazing.

Program Automatically Generates 3-D Models From a Single Photograph

Original Photo

and heres the 3d version

3d Version