Slow Glass: Visualizing History in 3D
PubDate: June 2020
Teams: University of Washington,Google
Writers: Xuan Luo, Yanmeng Kong, Jason Lawrence, Ricardo Martin-Brualla, Steve Seitz
PDF: Slow Glass: Visualizing History in 3D
Project: Slow Glass: Visualizing History in 3D
Abstract
We introduce new techniques for reconstructing and viewing antique stereographs in 3D. Leveraging the Keystone-Mast image collection from the California Museum of Photography, we apply multiple processing steps to produce clean stereo pairs, complete with calibration data, rectification transforms, and disparity maps. We describe an approach for synthesizing novel views from these scenes that runs at real-time rates on a mobile device, simulating the experience of looking through an open window into these historical scenes.