Friday, July 28, 2017

Mapping Cities with AI

Here are three interesting examples of using Google Street View and crowdsourcing to train AI algorithms to 'map' conditions in cities.

  • Seen on Maps Mania: Project Sidewalk is a classic example of crowdsourcing, now used for training machine learning algorithms. Cool and also somewhat scary.
  • Place Pulse has been around for a while and aims to quantitatively recognize which areas of a city are perceived as wealthy, modern, safe, lively, active, unique, central, adaptable or family friendly.
  • StreetChange takes a similar approach, albeit focused to detecting urban change from Street View photos taken several years part. 

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