Creating a Large-Scale Street View as User-Generated Content
Daisuke Tamada, Hideyuki Nakanishi · 2009
A lot of street view services, which present views of urban landscapes, have recently appeared. The conventional method for making street views requires on-vehicle cameras. We propose a new method, which relies on people who voluntarily take photos of an urban landscape. We have developed a system called QyoroView. The system receives photos from users, adjusts the photos’ position and orientation, and finally synthesizes them to generate a street view. We conducted two experiments in which the subjects generated a street view using our system. We also observed and interviewed the subjects who participated in order to learn their impression of the system.