Whooohoow this is so cool! Looks like a lot of Voodoo to me :) As I saw from the samples It doesn't work well on blurred images, so it won't work with sth. like a helmet or a car camera, would it?
Peter Tijs Zwinkels schrieb: > Hey All, > > As of yesterday, the Google Summer of Code has ended. With some > appropriate pride, I offer you signFinder: > http://code.google.com/p/signfinder/ . > As part of the OpenStreetPhoto project, this program detects, segments, > and reads dutch street-signs. For high-quality pictures (and not too old > street-signs), performance is good. > > The project is right now trained to read dutch street-signs, but as long > as they have a distinct color, there's no reason why it couldn't read > foreign street-signs. Read this: > http://code.google.com/p/signfinder/wiki/TrainingOtherCountries document > on how to adapt the signFinder to street-signs of other countries. > > The end of the summer of code, doesn't mean that I'll stop working on > this project. There are still methods to explore, and performance to > improve. > More importantly: I'm looking for practical applications for this > software. I'll be working with Stefan and others on an integration with > the OpenStreetView / OpenStreetPhoto project, but suggestions on an > exact use are welcome, as well as wholly unrelated ideas. > > I just saw that a discussion going on about video in OpenStreetView. I > expect to have a video to play with soon, and will report if results are > reasonable. > > - Tijs _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
