Social Street View blends geo-tagged social media with immersive maps, hence enabling immersive social story telling,
learning about culture and crowd-sourced tourism in a novel 3D user interface.
Video, paper, and slides available now.
This paper won the Best Paper Award on Web3D 2016! Patent pending.
Live demo is released as a part of Geollery.com.
@inproceedings{
Du2016SocialStreetView,
title={{Social Street View: Blending Immersive Street Views with Geo-tagged Social Media}},
author={Du, Ruofei and Varshney, Amitabh},
booktitle={Web3D '16 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Web3D Technology},
pages={77--85},
year={2016},
url={http://socialstreetview.com},
doi={10.1145/2945292.2945294},
publisher={ACM}
}
It provides a more thorough effort to integrate pictures from social media into a “real world” environment represented by Street View panoramic images, and the end results are solid and compelling. / The idea is very promising and has a lot of potential.
Social Street View (Patent Pending) is a proof-of-concept research system authored and patented by Ruofei Du and Amitabh Varshney, at the Augmentarium, UMIACS, University of Maryland, College Park. Please contact us for potential collaboration and license.