[OSM-talk] GSOC2012 Video Based Speed Limit Detector

[Emanuela Boroș]

Hello,

My name is Emanuela Boros and I am a second year Software Engineering master's student at the "Al. Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania and, after I graduate, I plan to follow a phd program.

My research experience is focused mainly towards computer vision, image processing, machine learning, multimodal information retrieval. It also involves participating at international evaluation campaigns (ImageClef, RobotVision) focusing on content-based image retrieval, image classification and topological localization using visual information.

I am interested very interested in this project Video Based Speed Limit Detector. I have noticed that the mentor associated with this project doesn't have any contact details and  I would like to know who should I contact for further clarifications before I start writing my proposal.

Thank you and best regards,

Emanuela Boros

[Graham Jones]

Hi Emanuela,
Thank you for your interest in applying for GSoC with Openstreetmap.   This list will be fine to ask questions - the person who proposed the project idea should reply here.

Here are a few suggestions to get you started:

- It is important to understand the fundamentals of what OSM is, so if you have not done so before, please start by creating an account and making some improvements to the map in your local area.

- It would also be good to look at the OSM data structure.  Details of the xml file format can be found on our wiki.  Not directly relevant to the particular project idea that you are thinking of, but we are asking all applicants to show an understanding of the basics of how OSM works this year, irrespective of their particular project proposal, as you will see on our application template.

- I think the project idea is about developing a plugin for the JOSM editor?  If so it would be good to have a look at that and learn to use it, then have a look at the code and some example plugins to see how they work - you should find lots of information on the OSM wiki.

Hope that helps.   Please feel free to ask more questions as you develop your proposal.

I would ask the person who proposed the idea to reply here with a bit more information please, as this is not something I know anything about!

Regards

Graham

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Graham Jones

Hartlepool, UK.

[Stefan de Konink]

Hi,

On 21-03-12 21:04, Emanuela Boroș wrote:
> My name is Emanuela Boros and I am a second year Software Engineering
> master's student at the "Al. Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania and,
> after I graduate, I plan to follow a phd program.

As you might know from projects in GSoC two years ago we did some
streetname recognition. For that we have a dataset available, you might
be interested in working upon the work done there.

(With or without being selected as student :)

Stefan

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[Paul Norman]

> From: Stefan de Konink [mailto:ste...@konink.de]
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] GSOC2012 Video Based Speed Limit Detector

>
> Hi,
>
> On 21-03-12 21:04, Emanuela Boroș wrote:
> > My name is Emanuela Boros and I am a second year Software Engineering
> > master's student at the "Al. Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania
> > and, after I graduate, I plan to follow a phd program.
>
> As you might know from projects in GSoC two years ago we did some
> streetname recognition. For that we have a dataset available, you might
> be interested in working upon the work done there.
>
> (With or without being selected as student :)

I also have a dataset of about 1000 georeferenced photos taken every 60 seconds by a digital camera available. These are higher quality than most video cameras would be, but are taken farther apart.

ToeBee from IRC just got a GoPro and is looking at video mapping.