3D-MODELS OF THE HUMAN HABITAT FOR THE INTERNET

Franz Leberl; Michael Gruber

3D-MODELS OF THE HUMAN HABITAT FOR THE INTERNET

Franz Leberl
, Michael Gruber

Institute of Visual Computing (7100)

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Abstract

The Internet has inspired an enormous appetite for 3-dimensional geo-data of the urban environment to support location-aware applications. This has in fact become the surprising „killer application“ of such 3-dimensional data. In March 2005, at the occasion of his 50th birthday, Bill Gates went public with his “Virtual Earth Vision” for local search in the Internet and stated: "You'll be walking around in downtown London and be able to see the shops, the stores, see what the traffic is like. Walk in a shop and navigate the merchandise. Not in the flat, 2D interface that we have on the web today, but in a virtual reality walkthrough.”
The key words are „walk in a shop“. This implies the need for an enormous detail, and the associated
computing power, communications bandwidth, miniaturization of computing, increase of storage
capacity and in the ability to model the human habitat (the Earth) in great detail in 3 dimensions.
This paper seeks to evangelize the current capabilities of the Virtual Earth system, focuses on the
creation of 3D data, but also points to some pieces of new science in the 3D-analysis of overlapping
imagery of the human habitat at sub-pixel accuracies

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications
Subtitle of host publication	Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)
Place of Publication	Setúbal
Publisher	SciTePress
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Print)	978-989-8111-67-8
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications: VISAPP 2009 - Lissabon, Portugal Duration: 5 Feb 2009 → 8 Feb 2009

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Conference	International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Lissabon
Period	5/02/09 → 8/02/09

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3D-MODELS OF THE HUMAN HABITAT FOR THE INTERNET

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