WEEK 3: WEB-ASSISTED OBJECT DETECTION ALEJANDRO TORROELLA

PAPERS I’VE BEEN READING Accurate Image Localization Using Google Maps Street Views City Scale GeoSpatial Trajectory Estimation Object Detection with Discriminatively Trained Part Based Models

GIS FORMATS AND PROGRAMS KML & KMZ: Variation of XML, very straight forward for my purposes GeoServer: Open Source community for GIS information Google Earth: Opens KML and KMZ files

DISCRIMINATELY TRAINED DEFORMABLE PART BASED MODELS Downloaded the code, had to install Linux to run it, ran into some issues with the compiler configuration, eventually got the code to train on PASCAL database, took about half a day to do so. Need to create my own database of outside objects (hydrants, lamp posts, bus stops, ATMs, etc.) and train models on them.

PERHAPS LOOK INTO F.R.E.A.K. FOR OBJECT DETECTION? DPMs don’t take into account orientation, models take a long time to train, results might still be lousy even with assistance of GIS data. F.R.E.A.K. is more robust, super fast, doesn’t require extensive training, and results could be more promising even without assistance of GIS data.

GOALS FOR NEXT WEEK Look into data fusion methods Obtain a database of images of different outside objects Train DPM on these databases Perhaps do more research on better object detection methods

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