Geometry directed browser for personal photographs

Aditya Deshpande, Siddharth Choudhary, P. J. Narayanan, Krishna Kumar Singh, Kaustav Kundu, Aditya Singh, Apurva Kumar
2012 Proceedings of the Eighth Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing - ICVGIP '12  
Browsers of personal digital photographs all essentially follow the slide show paradigm, sequencing through the photos in the order they are taken. A more engaging way to browse personal photographs, especially of a large space like a popular monument, should involve the geometric context of the space. In this paper, we present a geometry directed photo browser that enables users to browse their personal pictures with the underlying geometry of the space to guide the process. The browser uses a
more » ... pre-computed package of geometric information about the monument for this task. The package is used to register a set of photographs taken by the user with the common geometric space of the monument. This involves localizing the images to the monument space by computing the camera matrix corresponding to it. We use a state-of-the-art method for fast localization. Registered photographs can be browsed using a visualization module that shows them in the proper geometric context with respect to a point-based 3D model of the monument. We present the design of the geometry-directed browser and demonstrate its utility for a few sequences of personal images of well-known monuments. We believe personal photo browsers can provide an enhanced sense of one's own experience with a monument using the underlying geometric context of the monument.
doi:10.1145/2425333.2425335 dblp:conf/icvgip/DeshpandeCNSKSK12 fatcat:42ch4hstfjai3cvdb55p7l66ua