Research Overview

What can clouds tell us about the surrounding scene and the cameras taking the picture? That was the initial question that sparked my interest in clouds. Since then we have learned that clouds are a very interesting cue for understanding outdoor scene appearance.

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• Archive of Many Outdoor Scenes: a massive dataset of webcam images
• Geolocating Static Cameras: algorithms for estimating the geographic location of outdoor cameras

Acknowledgments

• This project is supported under DARPA Grant: ContextualEyes: A Context-Aware Surveillance System. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of DARPA.
• This project is supported under NSF IIS 0546383: CAREER: Passive Vision, What Can Be Learned by a Stationary Observer. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
• Many of the images used in this work were provided by Martin Setvak, we are very appreciative of this effort.