Pedestrian remover for Google Street View

Pedestrian remover for Google Street View(jacobsschool.ucsd.edu)

19 points by andrew_k 15 years ago | 7 comments

bugsy 15 years ago |

Hm, it's not a great algorithm compared to some others that have been discussed here. There was a crazy one last year where it could replace entire large regions of the photo automatically and there was no indication anything had been altered.

This looks like a poorly done paste and smear job. For a student's semester project, which I suppose it is, it's great.

BSeward 15 years ago | |

Seam carving? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIFCV2spKtg

Person-silhouetting seems more difficult to do well than content-replacing. I wonder how this falls apart in complex scenarios? Still, an interesting idea.

aquarin 15 years ago | | |

Patch match: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otAbvtiabeY

user24 15 years ago | | |

Yeah agreed. Smooth replacement of content is great, but I think you could easily build seam carving into this. The hard part is doing the person-detection in the first place.

StavrosK 15 years ago |

On an unrelated note, "Belongie" is a fantastic name.

Yes, I know it's French :(

malabar 15 years ago |

That's cool, but do they have a "pedestrian" one too?