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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.
“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.
