MSVA: Musical Street View Animator: An Effective and Efficient Way to Enjoy the Street Views of Your Journey

Google Maps with Street View (GSV) provides ways to explore the world but it lacks efficient ways to present a journey. Hyperlapse provides another ways for quick glimpsing the street-views along the route; however, its viewing experience is also not comfortable and could be tedious when the route is long-distance. In this paper, we provide an efficient and enjoyable way to present street view sequences of long journey. Street view journey video accompanied with locally listened music will be produced by the proposed approach. During the move between locations, we use the speed control techniques for animation production to improve the viewing experience. User evaluation results show that the proposed method increases the satisfaction of users in viewing the street view sequences.