TY - GEN
T1 - Creating and exploring a large photorealistic virtual space
AU - Sivic, Josef
AU - Kaneva, Biliana
AU - Torralba, Antonio
AU - Avidan, Shai
AU - Freeman, William T.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - We present a system for exploring large collections of photos in a virtual 3D space. Our system does not assume the photographs are of a single real 3D location, nor that they were taken at the same time. Instead, we organize the photos in themes, such as city streets or skylines, and let users navigate within each theme using intuitive 3D controls that include move left/right, zoom and rotate. Themes allow us to maintain a coherent semantic meaning of the tour, while visual similarity allows us to create a "being there" impression, as if the images were of a particular location. We present results on a collection of several million images downloaded from Flickr and broken into themes that consist of a few hundred thousand images each. A byproduct of our system is the ability to construct extremely long panoramas, as well as image taxi, a program that generates a virtual tour between a user supplied start and finish images. The system, and its underlying technology can be used in a variety of applications such as games, movies and online virtual 3D spaces like Second Life.
AB - We present a system for exploring large collections of photos in a virtual 3D space. Our system does not assume the photographs are of a single real 3D location, nor that they were taken at the same time. Instead, we organize the photos in themes, such as city streets or skylines, and let users navigate within each theme using intuitive 3D controls that include move left/right, zoom and rotate. Themes allow us to maintain a coherent semantic meaning of the tour, while visual similarity allows us to create a "being there" impression, as if the images were of a particular location. We present results on a collection of several million images downloaded from Flickr and broken into themes that consist of a few hundred thousand images each. A byproduct of our system is the ability to construct extremely long panoramas, as well as image taxi, a program that generates a virtual tour between a user supplied start and finish images. The system, and its underlying technology can be used in a variety of applications such as games, movies and online virtual 3D spaces like Second Life.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=52049126386&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/CVPRW.2008.4562950
DO - 10.1109/CVPRW.2008.4562950
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AN - SCOPUS:52049126386
SN - 9781424423408
T3 - 2008 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPR Workshops
BT - 2008 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPR Workshops
T2 - 2008 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPR Workshops
Y2 - 23 June 2008 through 28 June 2008
ER -