Google’s Steve Seitz & researchers at the University of Washington have devised a rather cool way to put your photos into context—much like the rephotography projects I posted last month.
Given a reference photograph to be uncropped, our approach selects, reprojects, and composites a subset of Internet imagery into a larger image around the reference using the underlying scene geometry.
What do you think? Is this a capability you’d like to pair with your own travel imagery?
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For some of the limitations, you could favor symmetry over extreme deformation. This would smooth inconsistencies in lighting.
“Is this a capability you’d like to pair with your own travel imagery?”
Not at all sure John – seems to me that it’d be better to choose a beautiful new camera that has an auto-panorama mode. Something designed/configured around hand-held or monopod usage, like this maybe: http://cameralabs.com/reviews/Fujifilm_X-T1/ …?