First-Person Hyper-lapse Videos • Hacker News Board

Re: First-Person Hyper-lapse Videos

#11

Post by Lifescape » Sun, Aug 10, 2014, 9:44 PM UTC

It appears as if the mountains are loading in the background (like in a video game) as you get closer to them.

Awesome idea/execution!

Re: First-Person Hyper-lapse Videos

#12

Post by jelveh » Sun, Aug 10, 2014, 9:47 PM UTC

left side video was shot here: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Altona+Town+Hall/@53.54767...

Re: First-Person Hyper-lapse Videos

#13

Post by oliwarner » Sun, Aug 10, 2014, 9:48 PM UTC

readerrrr wrote: post #6

Great results but looks expensive. I wonder how many minutes of processing per minute of video.

But still cheaper than the specialist hardware and its operator... Probably.

Re: First-Person Hyper-lapse Videos

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Post by issa » Sun, Aug 10, 2014, 9:51 PM UTC

I want to put something more meaningful into this comment, but all I can think to say is that this is really amazing. Well done!

Re: First-Person Hyper-lapse Videos

#15

Post by 0x0 » Sun, Aug 10, 2014, 9:53 PM UTC

Lifescape wrote: post #11

It appears as if the mountains are loading in the background (like in a video game) as you get closer to them. Awesome idea/execution!

Haha, I was just going to post that. It really gives off a mipmapping&LoD game/progressive-loading effect. So weird.

Re: First-Person Hyper-lapse Videos

#16

Post by sambodanis » Sun, Aug 10, 2014, 9:55 PM UTC

readerrrr wrote: post #6

Great results but looks expensive. I wonder how many minutes of processing per minute of video.

From the paper listed on the page it looks like it takes about 305 hours to process a 10 minute video. The vast majority of that is during the "source selection" phase which takes 1 minute per frame of video.

Re: First-Person Hyper-lapse Videos

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Post by iamshs » Sun, Aug 10, 2014, 9:57 PM UTC

Bloody amazing! Fantastic work! Release it. Release it soon. This is something that everyone would want.

I see they have listed a Windows app coming. Is that Windows desktop app?

Re: First-Person Hyper-lapse Videos

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Post by Mithaldu » Sun, Aug 10, 2014, 9:58 PM UTC

Since it's not quite obvious, the supplementary page has videos with better bitrate than what youtube did to them: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/hype...

Re: First-Person Hyper-lapse Videos

#19

Post by rkuykendall-com » Sun, Aug 10, 2014, 9:59 PM UTC

Interesting that the final video ( mostly the rock climbing ) resembles a video game, where shapes and textures "pop-in" as they are rendered. The technical explanation video was really well done.

Re: First-Person Hyper-lapse Videos

#20

Post by the_cat_kittles » Sun, Aug 10, 2014, 9:59 PM UTC

be sure to watch the technical exegesis at the bottom, its almost more amazing