Capturing and Viewing Gigapixel Images

This is the accompanying video to our SIGGRAPH 2007 paper.

We present a system to capture and view "Gigapixel images": very high resolution, high dynamic range, and wide angle imagery consisting of several billion pixels each. A specialized camera mount, in combination with an automated pipeline for alignment, exposure compensation, and stitching, provide the means to acquire Gigapixel images with a standard camera and lens. More importantly, our novel viewer enables exploration of such images at interactive rates over a network, while dynamically and smoothly interpolating the projection between perspective and curved projections, and simultaneously modifying the tone-mapping to ensure an optimal view of the portion of the scene being viewed.

The authors are:

Johannes Kopf
University of Konstanz




Matt Uyttendaele
Microsoft Research




Oliver Deussen
University of Konstanz




Michael Cohen
Microsoft Research

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Gigapixel
• Siggraph

[Garfler]

amazing, i hope the cameras of the future has a resolution and qualit like this:P

[Dyaceniil]

That's not a new camera. It's just a patchwork of multiple pictures, sewed together by the program

[lituvis1]

@quangluu96 I wonder xD

[quangluu96]

image size? 500mb?

[k9quarz]

amazing what digital photography can do... Great

[guggero]

holy cow... this is very impressive! Congrats to all the developers involved in this project!

With Seadragon and Photosynth combined, this will shoot through the roof of science.

[defragen1]

this is very cool

[festdir]

This is already technology that exist. The way that this is accomplished is by having 1000' of photographs stitched together. I don't think there will ever be a camera that do this by itself.

[moffe247]

Photoshop can also make panoramas. I don't know how large it can be, but it makes a great pictures.

[gabe0083]

holy shit!

[SnowKid32]

WTF. Everytime I try to find a GIG-Pixel image, it gives me like 1900x1200 images. WTF?