Title
Modeling the World from Internet Photo Collections
Abstract
There are billions of photographs on the Internet, comprising the largest and most diverse photo collection ever assembled. How can computer vision researchers exploit this imagery? This paper explores this question from the standpoint of 3D scene modeling and visualization. We present structure-from-motion and image-based rendering algorithms that operate on hundreds of images downloaded as a result of keyword-based image search queries like "Notre Dame" or "Trevi Fountain." This approach, which we call Photo Tourism, has enabled reconstructions of numerous well-known world sites. This paper presents these algorithms and results as a first step towards 3D modeling of the world's well-photographed sites, cities, and landscapes from Internet imagery, and discusses key open problems and challenges for the research community.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/s11263-007-0107-3
International Journal of Computer Vision
Keywords
Field
DocType
Structure from motion,3D scene analysis,Internet imagery,Photo browsers,3D navigation
Structure from motion,Computer vision,Computer science,Visualization,Tourism,Image processing,Image retrieval,Exploit,Artificial intelligence,3D modeling,The Internet
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
80
2
0920-5691
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
566
21.84
70
Authors
3
Search Limit
100566
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Noah Snavely14262197.04
Steven M. Seitz28729495.13
Richard Szeliski3213002104.74