{"50993":{"#nid":"50993","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Live Video Makes Google Earth Cities Bustle","body":"","field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EVirtual globes such as Google Earth or Microsoft Visual Earth provide great bird\u0027s-eye views of urban landscapes. But those streets are empty, transforming the world\u0027s cities into ghost towns. Now a system, designed by a team led by Ph.D. student Kihwan Kim and Professor Irfan Essa of the College of Computing, can change that by drawing on real-time video from traffic and surveillance cameras, or weather sensors. It populates virtual towns with cars, people and realistic skies. \u003Cem\u003ESource: NewScientist.com\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:39:25","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:04:20","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-09-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-09-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn17854-live-video-makes-google-earth-cities-bustle.html","title":"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn17854-live-video-makes-google-earth-cities-bustle.html"}],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}