Google has compiled incredible time lapse videos featuring the world’s most famous landmarks, after mining the Internet for more than 86 million photos. The resulting time-lapses show diverse changes in the world’s most popular sites like glaciers shrinking, waterfalls changing course, and city skylines changing with the addition of new skyscrapers.
To highlight how much the world is changing, researchers at Google and the University of Washington, collected publicly available photos, all of which were timestamped and geo-tagged, from Flickr, Picasa and Panoramio, adjusted them to fit the same location and viewpoint. Then, the analysts edited the photos lighting and stabilized the frames, to create what resembles a long loop.
Researchers also studied other trends illustrated in the photo montage, such as technological disparity in certain parts of the world. According to the data, Europe has the most time-lapses, while there are fewer to be found in Africa and South America.
According to their published paper, this synthesis of time-lapse videos is completely automated and leverages the vast quantity of photos available online.
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