sounds awesome! cheers,
matt On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Tijs Zwinkels <[email protected]> wrote: > So, I've decided to take on this project. :) > I'm currently writing my proposal, which I'll post to the wiki and submit at > the GSoC site in 1 ~ 2 hrs time. (let me know if you want to see the > intermediate versions, I can just post to the wiki whatever I have already) > > Just bouncing a few last ideas, mainly to define the scope of the project: > - I've decided to focus on the automatic reading of street signs, and not > specificly on the recognition of other items in the environment. However, > one of the most challenging parts of this project is to segment street-signs > from images succesfully, and I'll be using SIFT (among other things) for > that. I fully expect the toolset that I develop to be very useful in > recognizing other objects as well. > - Since street-signs look differently in different parts of the world, for > now I'll just try to automatically read dutch street-signs. I think this > will give me enough variance to struggle with for now. :) - ofcourse, it > shouldn't be hard to adapt this work to foreign street signs. > - There is a large difference between whether the software should be able to > catch and read street signs that just happen to be in a picture, or whether > people took a picture with the intention of capturing a street sign. (by > which we would view the sign from a relatively straight angle with a > reasonably high resolution, not too much reflection, etc) > For now I'll assume the latter case. If the performance is reasonable, we > can always scale up to the more difficult cases. > > - Tijs Zwinkels > > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Tijs Zwinkels <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Matt Amos <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Stefan de Konink <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > I think stitching is something that is lets say 'available', >>> > referencing >>> > images is too. But I would really love to see some thing like robust >>> > automatic traffic sign recognition, or maybe even streetname OCR. >>> > Ambitious but certainly doable. And don't forget, these are things that >>> > are not yet available on current camera's and DO require manual labor, >>> > so >>> > lets see what can be automated. >>> >>> automatic traffic sign recognition and streetname OCR - that would be >>> immensely cool! >>> >>> certainly seems doable. google must be doing it for their automatic >>> blurring on streetview. also, http://evernote.com/ has similar ideas. >>> >>> cheers, >>> >>> matt >> >> This sound very neat, but ofcourse there is 'google-doable' and then there >> is 'Tijs-in-three-months-doable'. ;) >> I'm currently going through literature and the links to see if this seems >> feasible. if so, I'll submit a proposal. >> >> I'll be lurking on #osm to bounce the occasional idea. >> >> - Tijs >> > > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
