Viewfinder: How to Seamlessly "Flickrize" Google Earth / a collaboration betw...
Google Tech TalksApril, 14 2008ABSTRACT"Viewfinder" is a novel method for users to spatially situate, or "find the pose," of their photographs, and then to view these photographs, along with others, as perfectly aligned overlays in a 3D world model such as Google Earth. Our objective is to provide a straightforward procedure for geo-locating photos of any kind, and our approach is to engage a community of users for a certain amount of human help. We specify that a 10-year-old should be able to find the pose of a photo in less than a minute, and we are convinced that this goal is achievable.Our work to date, supported by a Google Research Award, was intended to be fast, lean, and focused on a single piece of a larger puzzle: posing and viewing arbitrary photos in pre-existing 3D models (not custom-recorded photos and not model building, though we hope our work will be useful in these areas). In addition to presenting Viewfinder specifics, the larger puzzle itself will be examined.This talk will be taped. Speaker: Michael NaimarkMichael Naimark, Viewfinder Project DirectorMichael Naimark has made interactive "moviemaps" of Aspen from the street, Paris from the sidewalk, San Francisco from the air, Karlsruhe from the rail, Banff from hiking trails, and stereo-panoramic movies in Jerusalem, Dubrovnik, Angkor, and Timbuktu. His work is an unusual combination of optimism and activism, for example, it currently ranks #1 on Google searches for both VR webcams and camera zapper. Naimark received the World Technology Award for the Arts in 2002 and was the subject of a 20-year retrospective at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena in 2005. He currently serves on the Visiting Committee for the MIT Media Lab and on the faculty in the Interactive Media Division of the USC School for Cinematic Arts. For more information, please visit http://www.naimark.net .
Channel: People & Blogs
Uploaded: December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm
Author: googletechtalks
Length: 58:30
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joertjoert (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)
The speaker is a bit flaky. I keep losing track of what his point was going to be. I got bored with the sidetracking after 20 minutes, and skipped forward. I might have missed something very impressive by doing that, but I don't think this video is worth watching.
hymnofashes (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)
This is pretty wicked.
obis11 (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)
I know this might be slightly off topic, but it seems to me that it wouldnt be that hard to write an application for a palm treo (iphone, ect.) that creates a database of exact gps location, time, direction ect., that matches up with corresponding images taken on any smartphone with gps. Now I use gps on my treo for tomtom but gps info might be used in other ways. Just a thought. But I would love to contribute, this is a great idea.
happybois (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)
What's with the 10 year old quip? They'd be doing Calculus and numerical theory if you didnt treat them like kids. anyway... |
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