Watch Google researchers turn millions of Flickr images into time-lapse masterpieces

A team of researchers from Google and The University of Washington have developed a new way of creating time-lapse video – collating millions of photographs published online. They explain: We introduce an approach for synthesizing time-lapse videos of popular landmarks from large community photo collections. The approach is completely automated and leverages the vast quantity of photos available online. First, we cluster 86 million photos into landmarks and popular viewpoints. Then, we sort the photos by date and warp each photo onto a common viewpoint. Finally, we stabilize the appearance of the sequence to compensate for lighting effects and minimize flicker. Our resulting time-lapses show diverse changes in the…

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