Public photos mined to create beautiful time-lapses
In many ways, the internet is simply an extremely badly coordinated attempt to document our planet. Hundreds of millions of photos are uploaded online every day, depicting ourselves, our cities, our landscape, and our food. However, they’re also isolated and disparate: it’s difficult to sieve anything meaningful from the avalanche. Researchers from Google and the University of Washington have found a way though, creating a powerful set of algorithms that automatically sorts millions of online photos into time-lapses of everything from skyscrapers to glaciers. The internet is plugged in at one end, and a record of our changing world comes out the other. They call it “time-lapse mining.”
“We can now almost instantly create thousands of…
Source:: The Verge
