Navigating videos by location

  • Authors:
  • Philip Mildner;Frederik Claus;Stephan Kopf;Wolfgang Effelsberg

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany;University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany;University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany;University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Mobile Video
  • Year:
  • 2013

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

The combination of images with geographical information has gained a lot of attention; systems like Google Street View (GSV) have become an integral part of our daily routine and uploading and sharing geotagged images becomes more and more popular. With videos, however, this trend has not started yet. In this paper, we propose a model that combines videos with location data in interactive video tours. An introduced virtual map layer abstracts from single traces to compose one continuous video tour from an arbitrary set of input videos. This allows for an automatic selection of video files with an optimal coverage rate while minimizing transitions between videos. We implemented our model in a web application that enables users to create their own video tours and to freely change both time and location of the video stream.