dansky 6 hours ago

There are many YouTube channels walking through cities as the movement and sound add more to the atmosphere than street-view like experiences. I also happen to cover Prague many times like [1] in 2020 without many tourists.

One thing I started a few years is multicam walks. This means that I carry some 4-6 Osmo Pockets to actually film in several directions simultaneaously - example: Dresden [2].

The editing process is taking multiple hours so I have hundreds of unreleased recordings. If someone has a hint on AI assisted multicam editing, where to start (like better gaze prediction etc. from VR) I'd be interested - especially feeding all camera streams and let a NN decide the best camera angle and cuts to be between 4-11s?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7HIfklyF9w

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulzq8sorvR4

  • aeontech 6 hours ago

    Is it possible to stitch your footage into a 360 projection? If so, you could definitely upload it as either 180 or 360 degree video, which would allow for VR use cases as well.

    • dansky 4 hours ago

      I guess 180 would work. There is 360/VR content on YouTube yet it seems not mainstream yet. I also have a 360° cam that I rarely use. BTW, half of all my viewers watch this type of content on TV according to the stats.

      I guess subtitles, HDR and decent editing are more important for now so I'm looking for AI help in the editing part. Subtitles are already supported by GPTs

dt3ft 10 hours ago

So how do we explore? Is there a link somewhere in the article?

  • programd 6 hours ago

    After I posted the item I realized that there was no link and it's one of those "email us for access to the data" deals. Which I think is a mistake on their part. Nevertheless this is a great project and I wish there was more of this kind of work out there.

    Maybe it's time to start an open source effort to do something similar in some corner of the world? You'd need access to the mapping camera hardware, obviously. Who would be willing to fund it?

    • kfarr 3 hours ago

      That sounds pretty similar to mapillary

karel-3d 10 hours ago

Hate that I can't put this on wiki commons because of the non-commercial license.

  • rvnx 7 hours ago

    Especially without link in the article

andrewshadura 10 hours ago

Wow, driving in the pedestrian zone around Staromák is bad enough already, but they also happily post pictures. Not okay.

guwop 11 hours ago

crazy! wont be too long until this is here for major cities as well.

  • airstrike 9 hours ago

    Prague is the capital of Czech Republic and has over 1.3 million inhabitants, so I'd say it qualifies as a "major city"

zoklet-enjoyer 10 hours ago

Ray Holmberg ruined the idea of Prague for me

  • yread 20 minutes ago

    Did he also ruin North Dakota for you? Or the whole US/American continent.

  • TomK32 9 hours ago

    He probably ruined the idea of a lot more places before his first trip to Prague in 2011. Politicians really ought to retire from politics far earlier than before their 45th year in any sort of assembly.

  • adamnemecek 7 hours ago

    Do you think that it doesn’t happen in other cities?

mannyv 9 hours ago

Holy shit!