Capturing and Viewing Gigapixel Images
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2007), (2007)Abstract
We present a system to capture and view “Gigapixel images”: very high resolution, high dynamic range, and wide angle imagery consisting of several billion pixels each. A specialized camera mount, in combination with an automated pipeline for alignment, exposure compensation, and stitching, provide the means to acquire Gigapixel images with a standard camera and lens. More importantly,
our novel viewer enables exploration of such images at interactive
rates over a network, while dynamically and smoothly interpolating the projection between perspective and curved projections, and
simultaneously modifying the tone-mapping to ensure an optimal
view of the portion of the scene being viewed.
