Four articles provide different approaches for creating a digital representation of the world. Leading experts from TU Graz, Google, the University of Washington, TU Darmstadt, and Fraunhofer IGD explain what is possible today.
Keywords :
Computer vision; Earth; Image reconstruction; Instruments; Internet; Land vehicles; Rivers; Roads; Scalability; Telescopes; 3D maps; 3D reconstruction; Computer vision; aerial imaging; community photo collections; crowd sourcing; digital maps; street-level imaging;
