Comparison with others'STREET VIEW (GOOGLE & BAIDU) Our scanning and mapping process is not only faster than competitors using consumer-grade cameras, but it also delivers an exceptionally smooth and lifelike virtual tour experience. The 3D scenes we create are "animated," providing a dynamic ...
Google revealed today that the Street View cameras that sit atop the roofs of vehicles that roam and catalogue the world have received a quality bump. While this results in higher resolution images, it also means better data for its image recognition systems. Expand...
So it wasn't the most graceful when I tried on Google's Street View Trekker, one of several pieces of equipment the company uses to capture its Street View imagery. The 3-foot-9-inch high (1.2m) Trekker consists of 15 cameras in a ball-like shape, mounted on a pole, powered by a...
Google has taken its street-view cameras off the beaten path way off the beaten path. The panoramic-picture-taking technology will be going all the way to the jungles and rivers of the Amazon rain forest. The Internet giant this week began taking pictures of the rivers and villages of the...
A big jump in the resolution of Google Street View imagery will help the company's software read street signs and business names
Street View imagery is captured through a diverse fleet of vehicles equipped with specialist cameras (Vincent [2007]). After collection, photos are digitally processed and ‘stitched’ together to obtain the familiar 360° panoramas. These images are connected to the Google Maps map and embedded wi...
A picture of you in the street outside your house doesn’t show much – I need to know what you look like to know it is you in the picture, and I need to know where you live, if I know that what do I learn from the picture ? If the cameras caught you doing...
How does Google Street View get images? Hello World. Google collects Street View imagery bydriving, pedaling, sailing and walking around and capturing imagery with special cameras that simultaneously collect images in multiple directions. The images are later overlapped and stitched together into a si...
It reports that the feature provides 360-degrees images of the street. It mentions that Google Inc. and its partner Immersive media Corp. created the images by the use of cars having 11-lens and spherical digital cameras. It reports that Google used the Dodeca 2360 cameras for shooting video...
google-street-view-car(Image credit: Android Central) What you need to know "Driving Mode" is a new feature being tested on the Street View app that allows users to upload Street View captures with just their phones. This could play a big role in filling out parts of Google Maps where ...