Washington University of St. Louis Ph.D. candidate Austin Abrams has
developed Live3D, a browser-based application for Google Earth and
geospatial databases that replaces the two-dimensional (2D) image of
virtual buildings and other objects with images drawn from live feeds of
webcams. The images come from the Archive of Many Outdoor Scenes
(AMOS), a collection of live feeds from nearly 1,000 webcams streaming
from various sites worldwide. Live3D maps webcam images onto a
three-dimensional (3D) model of a location or landmark. Using the
system's Web interface, users outline a region of the webcam image by
moving the corners of a polygon. Live3D then takes the outlined 2D
image and warps it to fit the 3D geometry of Google Earth. "We wanted
to make Google Earth and geospatial databases a little more alive,"
Abrams says.
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