Welcome to iTowns
This is a project financed by the ANR (French National Research Agency) and Cap Digital. The goal is to define and implement a new generation prototype of multimedia web tools that mixes a broadband 3D geographic image-based browser together with an image-based search engine with queries. This project addresses specifically very spatially dense high resolution ground-based imagery acquired on the street scale.
Three challenges
- Navigate freely within the image flow
- Extract features automatically from the images
- Exploit features to provide high level semantic data
The first goal is to navigate with a browser freely and fluidly within the image flow (without 3D models) in huge data sets to see and visit the city as if we were there. The second goal is to build from the images a content-based information system to provide within the browser tool some simple and more complex services and applications using queries (goto a given address, generate hybrid text-image navigation maps, find the location of an orphan image, select the images that can see an object, etc.).
More information about the partners for the project here