Google Street View: Capturing the World at Street Level

2010/06/01 by Dragomir Anguelov, Carole Dulong, Daniel Filip +8 · 44 citations
Computer Science · Social Sciences · Engineering · #Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods #Geographic Information Systems Studies #Automated Road and Building Extraction

paper · doi:10.1109/mc.2010.170

Abstract

Street View serves millions of Google users daily with panoramic imagery captured in hundreds of cities in 20 countries across four continents. A team of Google researchers describes the technical challenges involved in capturing, processing, and serving street-level imagery on a global scale.

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