Augmenting Aerial Earth Maps

An interesting research paper from Georgia Institute of Technology introduces methods for augmenting aerial visualizations of Earth (from tools such as Google Earth or Microsoft Virtual Earth) with dynamic information obtained from videos. The goal is to make Augmented Earth Maps that visualize the live broadcast of dynamic sceneries within a city. They propose to analyze videos of pedestrians and cars, under differing conditions and then augment Aerial Earth Maps with live and dynamic information.



See also:

• Project's web-page
• Layar - World's First Mobile Augmented Reality Browser
• Sixth Sense Technology
• Yellow Bird