Matt Amos wrote: > sounds awesome! +1
If this could work off a straight-angle photo, but with only a mobile phone camera, that could be pretty nice to work with. Tom > 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 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
