On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Stefan de Konink <[email protected]> wrote: > Tijs Zwinkels wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Stefan de Konink <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> I'm not sure whether this is very suitable for a webapp since it might >> require quite some computation, and will generally operate on databases of >> pictures that might be a pain to upload. It's certainly possible though. >> Maybe we should think about a platform which allows it to be used both >> locally and as a webapp.
processing on mobiles would be really cool, but probably too ambitious for a GSoC project. we can always do that after the project has completed :-) <snip> >> But please keep in mind that SIFT will *not* work for the typical >> streetsign because SIFT looks for features, which are typically not >> present in the 'easy to understand' signs (because they use colours). wouldn't SIFT (or variants thereof) work really well against a database of exemplars, i.e: pictures of existing street signs, isolated letters from the font used for street signage? i'm happy to advise on this project, but i have to state up-front that i don't have the experience that stefan has with SIFT, etc... cheers, matt _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
