Photo-Guide: Image-Based City Exploration

Project duration: January 2011 - December 2013
Project Leader: Michael Wimmer
Funding:
FWF P23237-N23

Content:

General Information

The core idea of the project is the enhancement of current state-of-the art navigation systems by visual information obtained from geo-referenced photographs. The aim is to establish a suite of tools together with algorithmic foundations that will be essential for any large scale image-based guidance project.

The main hypothesis of this project is that in the case of guidance, especially for pedestrians, the first-person perspective is intuitive and leads to natural orientation. In the project we will research how to generate first-person views on top of databases of simple ground-based photographs and classical overview maps. The ultimate idea is a system which allows the user to navigate through a city and even through interiors of buildings guided by the aid of annotated first-person views. Furthermore, the actual creation of the routes shall happen automatically on demand.

Examples of fields that can benefit from the proposed approach are tourism and general entertainment industries, city planners, local governments, simulation and security training, emergency management, civil protection and disaster control, as well as driving simulation to name but a few. Ultimately, the following scientific fields can profit from the proposed basic research results: computer graphics with image processing, computer vision, computational photography, pattern recognition, photogrammetry and remote sensing, cartography, computer aided design, geo-sciences and mobile-technology.

Publications

7 Publications found:
2013
Przemyslaw Musialski, Peter Wonka, Daniel G. Aliaga, Michael Wimmer, Luc van Gool, Werner Purgathofer
A Survey of Urban Reconstruction
Computer Graphics Forum, (x):to appear-, 2013. 		Journal Paper (without talk)
Przemyslaw Musialski, Michael Wimmer
Inverse-Procedural Methods for Urban Models
In Proc. of 1st Eurographics Workshop on Urban Data Modelling and Visualisation, pages 31-32. 2013.
[ paper-draft] 		Other Reviewed Publication
2012
Przemyslaw Musialski, Michael Wimmer, Peter Wonka
Interactive Coherence-Based Façade Modeling
Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EUROGRAPHICS 2012), 31(2):661-670, May 2012. [ draft-hires] [ draft-lowres] 		Journal Paper with Conference Talk
Przemyslaw Musialski, Peter Wonka, Daniel G. Aliaga, Michael Wimmer, Luc van Gool, Werner Purgathofer
A Survey of Urban Reconstruction
In EUROGRAPHICS 2012 State of the Art Reports, pages 1-28. May 2012.
[ draft-hires] [ draft-lowres] 		Conference Paper
Ji Liu, Przemyslaw Musialski, Peter Wonka, Jieping Ye
Tensor Completion for Estimating Missing Values in Visual Data
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 35(1):208-220, January 2012. 		Journal Paper (without talk)
Przemyslaw Musialski, Ming Cui, Jieping Ye, Anshuman Razdan, Peter Wonka
A Framework for Interactive Image Color Editing
The Visual Computer, (), 2012. [ draft] 		Journal Paper (without talk)
Przemyslaw Musialski
Image-Based Approaches for Facade Reconstruction, 22.08.2012-22.08.2012, Aachen, Germany
[ slides] 		Invited Talk
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