MSN Videomap Directions (Channel 9)

MSN Videomap Directions

Posted: Dec 03, 2009 at 9:47 AM

By: Larry Larsen

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As you look at things like Bing's Streetside, you might be thinking it would be great for something like real time driving directions. Billy Chen, a research in MSN's Advanced Engineering team, has been thinking about this from the ground up. The result is this interesting way of connecting the visual memory humans have from having driven to a location before with a movie created from the slides from point A to B in Bing maps. Billy joined us to tell us more about this project.

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ivan_ g

Dec 03, 2009 at 11:13 AM

Very nice piece of work!

What will happen when there is no available street view on some portions of the route?

There is usually no street view available for freeways, but, o boy, how often do I use them and some ramps are very wierd, so video would be helpful there as well.

I also noticed on some of the left turns either video expanded to the right and we could not see it or it didn't expand at all.

Oh yes, WinMo Bing Maps need a lot of work. It is very unfinished product, so these video, or at least snapshots of landmarks on WinMo would be of great help.
Bas It finds lightbulbs.

Dec 03, 2009 at 11:35 AM

So where's the link to the website?
LarryLarsen "Lightbulb"

Dec 03, 2009 at 12:14 PM

This is the best link so far: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/cohen/vdd_webpage/
natelawrence

Dec 04, 2009 at 12:50 AM

Great choice, Larry. Bill is full of interesting ideas. I've kept an eye on what he was up to ever since watching a video of Blaise A., Eyal O., and Bill (Open in IE) talking about Virtual Earth futures a couple years back.

Niners might find useful his MSR profile, his blog where he writes up other researchers, his twitter account, or his Photosynth account which contains some interesting calibration tests for Photosynth.
videomap

Mar 11, 2010 at 7:01 AM

While research is good but what about already commercialized videomaps?

check out www.vidteq.com
natelawrence

Jul 25, 2010 at 6:07 PM

I'm sure that the Bing Maps team is working on implementing this. They simply need more Streetside footage to be captured to really apply it.