Street Slide: Browsing Street Level Imagery

This is the accompanying video to our SIGGRAPH 2010 paper. Enjoy!

Visit http://tinyurl.com/28myc32 for more info about the project.

Abstract:
Systems such as Google Street View and Bing Maps Streetside enable
users to virtually visit cities by navigating between immersive
360panoramas, or bubbles. The discrete moves from bubble to
bubble enabled in these systems do not provide a good visual sense
of a larger aggregate such as a whole city block. Multi-perspective
"strip" panoramas can provide a visual summary of a city street but
lack the full realism of immersive panoramas.

We present Street Slide, which combines the best aspects of the
immersive nature of bubbles with the overview provided by multi-perspective
strip panoramas. We demonstrate a seamless transition
between bubbles and multi-perspective panoramas. We also
present a dynamic construction of the panoramas which overcomes
many of the limitations of previous systems. As the user slides sideways,
the multi-perspective panorama is constructed and rendered
dynamically to simulate either a perspective or hyper-perspective
view. This provides a strong sense of parallax, which adds to the
immersion. We call this form of sliding sideways while looking at
a street facade a street slide. Finally we integrate annotations and a
mini-map within the user interface to provide geographic information
as well additional affordances for navigation. We demonstrate
our Street Slide system on a series of intersecting streets in an urban
setting. We report the results of a user study, which shows that
visual searching is greatly enhanced with the Street Slide interface
over existing systems from Google and Bing.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• SIGGRAPH
• 2010
• Paper
• Street
• Slide
• Navigation
• Interface

[m30wlol]

8 people that thumbed down are from Google.

[SaggioD]

Google will have this in a week now.

[anon000000000000000]

bing - fail

[Mickycond86]

Stupid thing ,useless

[GUMASI]

Looks awesome, can´t wait to test it on my own.

[GuidoMarc1]

Really cool, far superior to streetview! Hopefully it will come soon!

[Stoni41]

microsoft rules

[bahorized]

@AustralianBushman Well, google just followed, right?

[roquemocan]

@yostevodotcom

You are right, it was in the '90s (I am getting old...). Microsoft's effort was not as seamless as Streetview, as it was done with older technology. In general, if we search Wikipedia for Terraserver (Microsoft's mapping effort in the '90s), it preceded Keyhole ('00ish), which was then bought by Google...

[yostevodotcom]

@roquemocan Maybe so, but its interesting that you could have seen any kind of idea on a Microsoft "site" because the Web was not in existence until the 90's not to mention the scripting technology to actually pull off something like Streetview was available until after the mid-90's

[roquemocan]

@Oracle365 Yes, there WAS a street view (more rudimentary) in the '80s made by Microsoft (of all companies), but I think it didn't get popularized...