Street slide: browsing street level imagery

Systems such as Google Street View and Bing Maps Streetside enable users to virtually visit cities by navigating between immersive 360◦ panoramas, or bubbles. The discrete moves from bubble to bubble enabled in these systems do not provide a good visual sense of a larger aggregate such as a whole city block. Multi-perspective “strip” panoramas can provide a visual summary of a city street but lack the full realism of immersive panoramas. We present Street Slide, which combines the best aspects of the immersive nature of bubbles with the overview provided by multiperspective strip panoramas. We demonstrate a seamless transition between bubbles and multi-perspective panoramas. We also present a dynamic construction of the panoramas which overcomes many of the limitations of previous systems. As the user slides sideways, the multi-perspective panorama is constructed and rendered dynamically to simulate either a perspective or hyper-perspective view. This provides a strong sense of ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: SIGGRAPH
• Authors: Johannes Kopf, Billy Chen, Richard Szeliski, Michael Cohen
• Keywords: Computer Graphics, Immersive 360◦ Panoramas, Multi-perspective Panorama, SIGGRAPH 2010, Street Slide