Time-lapse Mining from Internet Photos [SIGGRAPH 2015]
This is an automated approach for creating time-lapse videos of popular landmarks from large community photo collections. It takes and sorts million of photos online by viewpoint and date to create the videos. The results show diverse changes in the world's most popular sites, like glaciers shrinking, skyscrapers being constructed, and waterfalls changing course.
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Source and research paper
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Reference image and computed depthmap for Briskdalsbreen Glacier and Goldman Sachs Tower scenes. Warmer colors represent pixels closer to the camera. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON; GOOGLE INC.
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Very cool tech.