Gigapixel Panoramic Images with HD View from MS Research

Posted By: Nic Fillingham | May 22nd, 2007 @ 10:25 PM

HD View is a new image viewer technology developed by Microsoft Research's Interactive Visual Media Group to aid in the display and interaction with very large images. (as in Gigapixel large which equates to billions of pixels)

Check out this cool video overview of creating and viewing Gigapixel images with HD View. There's a walkthrough of the image capturing process, stitching principles and comparisons with other technologies.

More info: http://research.microsoft.com/ivm/HDView.htm
and http://hdview.spaces.live.com/

Can't wait to see a popfly mashup of HD View + Silverlight + Photosynth + Virtual Earth Smiley