Loop closure

A method comprising:

• on a mobile device including a processor, a memory, a camera, an inertial measurement unit, a microphone and a touchscreen display,
• receiving via an input interface on the mobile device a request to generate a multi-view interactive digital media representation of an object;
• causing capture of live images from the camera on the mobile device as the mobile device moves along a path and wherein an orientation of the camera varies along the path such that the object in the live images is captured from a plurality of camera views;
• based upon sensor data from the inertial measurement unit, determining angular changes in the orientation of the camera along the path;
• based upon the angular changes, determining an angular view of the object captured in each of the live images;
• based upon the determined angular view of the object in each of the live images, selecting a sequence of images from among the live images;
• determining the angular view of the object is about three hundred sixty degrees in one of the live images;
• selecting a final image in the sequence of images wherein the angular view of the object in the final image is about three hundred sixty degrees;
• automatically stopping, responsive to selecting the final image in the sequence of images, capture of the live images;
• and
• generating from the sequence of the images the multi-view interactive digital media representation wherein the multi-view interactive digital media representation includes a plurality of images wherein each of the plurality of images includes the object from a different camera view such that when the plurality of images is output to the touchscreen display the object appears to undergo a 3-D rotation through about three hundred sixty degrees view wherein the three hundred sixty degree 3-D rotation of the object is generated without a 3-D polygon model of the object.