Mind Your Crossings: Mining GIS Imagery for Crosswalk Localization
Dragan Ahmetovic, Roberto Manduchi, James M. Coughlan, Sergio Mascetti · 2017 · ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)
This paper presents a computer vision system for automatically detecting and localizing zebra crosswalks in urban environments by mining existing geospatial image databases, specifically Google satellite imagery and Google Street View. The motivation is that blind pedestrians…
visual impairment · orientation and mobility · computer vision · navigation · crowdsourcing