Computer Scientists Build Pedestrian Remover
Thursday, August 5, 2010 - 13:56
in Mathematics & Economics
(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine encountering leashed dogs without dog walkers, or shoes filled just with ankles - when scoping out potential apartments using Google Street View. These are the sorts of visual hiccups that an experimental computer vision system occasionally generates when it automatically removes individual pedestrians from images that populate Google Street View.