May 25, 2013

Deep Zoom tool for advanced interactivity with high-resolution images



Extending Deep Zoom technology allows the viewer to record a customized path through many image files, enabling further measurements.

Deep Zoom technology enables efficient transmission and viewing of images with large pixel counts.1 Originally developed for 2D images by Seadragon Software, it was expanded by Microsoft Live Labs, and by Google to support Google Maps. Later, it was extended for 3D and other visualizations with open-source projects such as OpenSeaDragon.234 Here we report on the extension of Deep Zoom to 2D+ temporal data sets, retrieving image features, and recording fly-through image sequences (recorded simultaneously and viewed sequentially) from terabytes of image data.

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