Video: Researchers stitch together 86 mn photos to create a stunning time-lapse

The time-laspe captures stunning effects of how landscapes change constantly

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Time lapse video stitches 86 million photos together. (Source: Screenshot)

Researchers at the Washington University teamed up Google to cluster together over 86 million publicly available photos which shows how the earth is constantly evolving.

According to a post on Mashable, “the team analyzed 86 million photos from social sites, including Flickr and Picasa, and grouped them into landmarks.” The photos were then sorted by dates and a stop-motion video was created to showcase how each landmark changes over time.

In the paper which was published by the researchers they explain how the process was done.

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“We sort the photos by date and warp each photo onto a common viewpoint. Finally, we stabilize the appearance of the sequence to compensate for lighting effects and minimize flicker,” they wrote. This is a full automated approach and

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As the video shows, the time-laspe captures stunning effects of how landscapes change, something that would take a traditional camera years and months to do. The researchers relied on crowd-sourcing the photos for the project.

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