Mapping sidewalks and street furniture with AI and computer vision – Saberi & Lilasathapornkit
Channel: OpenStreetMap US
Date: 2024-02-07

Speakers: Meead Saberi & Tanapon Lilasathapornkit

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and computer vision have enabled detailed mapping of urban spaces at scale using street-level imagery data. In this talk, we present an end-to-end process of mapping sidewalks and street furniture from the collection of high-resolution panoramic sidewalk view images to producing detailed spatial point and line data layers representing the walking infrastructure. We demonstrate the applicability of the developed AI-powered process in a sidewalk mapping project in Sydney.