David Jacobs

David Jacobs

Professor, Computer Science
University of Maryland
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David Jacobs was a collaborator with the Makeability Lab for 5.0 years (Aug 2012 to Jul 2017). David contributed to a project called Project Sidewalk as well as 3 publications.
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Projects

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Project Sidewalk

2012 – Present

Papers

Tohme: Detecting Curb Ramps in Google Street View Using Crowdsourcing, Computer Vision, and Machine Learning

Kotaro Hara, Jin Sun, Robert Moore, David Jacobs, Jon E. Froehlich

Proceedings of UIST 2014

PDF | doi | Citation | Project Sidewalk • Tohme

An Initial Study of Automatic Curb Ramp Detection with Crowdsourced Verification using Google Street View Images

Kotaro Hara, Jin Sun, Noa Chazan, David Jacobs, Jon E. Froehlich

Extended Abstract Proceedings of HCOMP 2013

PDF | doi | Citation | Project Sidewalk • Tohme

Exploring Early Solutions for Automatically Identifying Inaccessible Sidewalks in the Physical World using Google Street View

Kotaro Hara, Victoria Le, Jin Sun, David Jacobs, Jon E. Froehlich

HCIC2013 Workshop 2013

PDF | Citation | Project Sidewalk • Tohme

We design, build, and evaluate new interactive tools and techniques to address pressing societal challenges. Makeability refers both to how our technological innovations make new abilities possible for humans as well as our educational mission to help students gain new abilities as they learn and grow through research, invention, and human-centered design.

Recent News

Dec. 18, 2024

Ritesh Earns Honorable Mention for CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher

Dec. 17, 2024

AI-Assisted Vision Mini-Workshop

Nov. 11, 2024

Jon Starts as Visiting Faculty Researcher at Google

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