Processing Geotagged Image Sets for Collaborative Compositing and View Construction

Levente Kovacs; Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops, 2013, pp. 460-467

In this paper we present a method for local processing of photos and associated sensor information on mobile devices. Our goal is to lay the foundations of a collaborative multi-user framework where ad-hoc device groups can share their data around a geographical location to produce more complex composited views of the area, without the need of a centralized server-client cloud-based architecture. We focus on processing as much data locally on the devices as possible, and reducing the amount of data that needs to be shared. The main results are the proposal of a lightweight processing and feature extraction framework, based on the analysis of vision graphs, and presenting preliminary composite view generation based on these results.