What Makes Paris Look Like Paris

What Makes Paris Look Like Paris? It’s complicated.

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“What Makes Paris Look Like Paris?” Carl Doersch, Saurabh Singh, Abhinav Gupta, Josef Sivic, Alexei A. Efros, Communications of the ACM

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The Google Camel

How do you take Google Street View photos of the Arabian desert? You can’t cruise the dunes in a camera-mounted car without damaging the delicate sand structures, so you put your camera on a camel. A female dromedary, actually (one hump, not two) named Raffia.

Google Street View Hyperlapse (Dramamine recommended)

“Hyper-lapse photography – a technique combining time-lapse and sweeping camera movements typically focused on a point-of-interest …. Creating them requires precision and many hours stitching together photos taken from carefully mapped locations. We aimed at making the process simpler by using Google Street View as an aid, but quickly discovered that it could be used as the source material. It worked so well, we decided to design a very usable UI around our engine and release Google Street View Hyperlapse.”

— Teehan+Lax Labs

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