1. Video Phototourism
Scott Rick
CS 534
5/5/2011

2. The motivation for my project comes from an idea while using PhotoCity and Microsoft’s Photosynth.

3. The big idea:
Since tourists already take videos of landmarks, couldn’t we use these videos to improve photo tourism?

4. Method
Video Stills
Video
Audio

5. Method
Videos Stills
Supplementary Photos

6. Advantages Drawbacks More source images Uses existing hardware Quality
Individual photos are slow
Taking videos is faster
Videos have 30 fps
Uses existing hardware
Point and shoot cameras normally take videos
Quality
Lower Resolution
Motion Blur
Few vantage points
Better suited to panoramas

7. Video input has interesting related applications
PhotoCity Game
Panoramas from videos
“3D points = game points!”
Video stills = more pictures = more 3D points = more game points
Arcsoft Panorama Maker Pro
Video to Panorama iPhone app

8. Thanks!