Title: GIS aware image exploration

Abstract: Over the past years the amount of images primarily available from the Internet has drastically increased. Especially when searching for popular objects the amount of images found makes browsing infeasible. This calls for new techniques to organize these images for easy exploration. The talk will introduce a method of organization by embedding the images into a virtual environment. In such an environment users can efficiently navigate between images to find one that shows the object from the perfect point of view. By adding geo-spatial information to the reconstructed scene it is, moreover, possible to build a virtual model of the world.