[ptx] Streetscape-panorama, new scientific paper

[Sebastian Nowozin]

Hello everybody,

I asked on this list a while back how to go about producing a 
streetscape panorama, where you have one long linear image that shows a 
streetblock (basically what Google Maps has now for big US cities), by 
combining many photographs.

Today I found a recent paper from the IEEE Visualization 2004 
conference, written by Augusto Román, Gaurav Garg and Marc Levoy from 
Stanford.  They do just that in a semi-automatic way from a video.

"Interactive Design of Multi-Perspective Images for Visualizing Urban 
Landscapes"

http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/multi-cross-slits/

At the above URL there is the original paper, an example image and a 
video.  I think their technique can be extended to use images instead of 
a video stream (ie. making it more practical for us panorama geeks) and 
the technique does not sound too difficult to implement.  Registering 
the images may be similar to the recent "large map from many scanned 
images" discussion on this list.

Any comments on the technique or similar papers known to you? :)

bye,
Sebastian