6. Scient ist s solut ion t o panoramas:
Single cent er of proj ect ion
Regist rat ion: Brown & Lowe, I CCV’05
Blending: Burt & Adelson, Trans. Graphics,1983
Visualizat ion: Kopf et al., SI GGRAPH, 2007
No 3D!!!
14. Learn f rom t he art ist s
Mult iple view point s
De Chirico “Myst ery and
Melancholy of a St reet ”,
1914
perspect iveperspect ive
Sharp
discont inuit
y
15. Renaissance paint ers solut ion
“School of Athens”, Raffaello Sanzio ~1510
Give a separat e t reat ment t o dif f erent part s of t he scene!!
16. Personalized pr oj ect ions
“School of Athens”, Raffaello Sanzio ~1510
Give a separat e t reat ment t o dif f erent part s of t he scene!!
17. Mult iple planes of proj ect ion
Sharp discont inuit ies can of t en be well hidden
24. Obj ect ives - r evisit ed
1. Bet t er looking panoramas
2. Let t he camera move:
• Any view
• Nat ural phot ographing
Mult iple views can live t oget her
33. J oiners ar e popular
4,985 phot os mat ching j oiners.
4,007 phot os mat ching Hockney.
41 groups about Hockney
Thousands of members
Flickr st at ist ics (Aug’07):
34. Main goals:
Aut omat e j oiners
Generalize panoramas t o general
image collect ions
35. Obj ect ives
• For Ar t ist s:
Reduce manual labor
Manual: ~40min. Fully aut omat ic
36. Obj ect ives
• For Ar t ist s:
Reduce manual labor
• For non-ar t ist s:
Gener at e pleasing-t o-t he-eye j oiner s
37. Obj ect ives
• For Ar t ist s:
Reduce manual labor
• For non-ar t ist s:
Gener at e pleasing-t o-t he-eye j oiner s
• For dat a explorat ion:
Or ganize images spat ially
72. • I ncorrect geomet ries are possible and f un!
• Geomet ry is not enough, we need scene analysis
• A highly r elat ed wor k:
"Scene Collages and Flexible Camera Arrays,”
Y. Nomura, L. Zhang and S.K. Nayar,
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, J un, 2007.
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