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Navigating the worldwide community of photos

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The last decade has seen an explosion in the number of photographs available on the Internet. The sheer volume of interesting photos makes it a challenge to explore this space. Various Web and social media sites, along with search and indexing techniques, have been developed in response. One natural way to navigate these images in a 3D geo-located context. In this article, we reflect on our work in this area, with a focus on techniques that build partial 3D scene models to help find and navigate interesting photographs in an interactive, immersive 3D setting. We also discuss how finding such relationships among photographs opens up exciting new possibilities for multimedia authoring, visualization, and editing.

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              cover image ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications
              ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications  Volume 9, Issue 1s
              Special Sections on the 20th Anniversary of ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Best Papers of ACM Multimedia 2012
              October 2013
              218 pages
              ISSN:1551-6857
              EISSN:1551-6865
              DOI:10.1145/2523001
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              • Published: 17 October 2013
              • Accepted: 1 June 2013
              • Received: 1 May 2013
              Published in tomm Volume 9, Issue 1s

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