Mikey Saugstad

Mikey Saugstad

Research Scientist, Computer Science

University of Washington

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Mikey Saugstad is currently a Research Scientist in the Makeability Lab. Mikey has been in the lab for 8.7 years and contributed to 6 projects, including LabelAId, Project Sidewalk + Community Science, Project Sidewalk, as well as 19 publications. During their time in the lab, Mikey mentored 71 Makeability Lab students, including Anas Slassi, Aditya Dash, and Zoe Kaputa.

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Recent Projects

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LabelAId

2023 – 2024

The Oradell Girl Scouts presenting to the town council

Project Sidewalk + Community Science

2021 – Present

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Project Sidewalk

2012 – Present

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Deep Learning for Sidewalk Assessment

2016 – Present

Recent Papers

RampNet: A Two-Stage Pipeline for Bootstrapping Curb Ramp Detection in Streetscape Images from Open Government Metadata

ICCV CV4A11y Workshop 2025

John O'Meara, Jared Hwang, Zeyu Wang, Mikey Saugstad, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | doi | Citation | Code | RampNet

Validating Pedestrian Infrastructure Data: How Well Do Street-View Imagery Audits Compare to Government Field Data?

Urban Sci 2025

Sajad Askari, Devon Snyder, Chu Li, Mikey Saugstad, Jon E. Froehlich, Yochai Eisenberg

PDF | doi | Citation | Project Sidewalk

Towards Fine-Grained Sidewalk Accessibility Assessment with Deep Learning: Initial Benchmarks and an Open Dataset

ASSETS 2024

Alex Liu, Kevin Wu, Minchu Kulkarni, Mikey Saugstad, Peyton Rapo, Jeremy Freiburger, Maryam Hosseini, Chu Li, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | doi | Citation | Deep Learning for Sidewalk Assessment • Project Sidewalk

Videos

BusStopCV: A Real-time AI Assistant for Labeling Bus Stop Features in Streetscape Imagery

YouTube | Paper

Experimental Crowd+AI Approaches to Track Accessibility Features in Sidewalk Intersections Over Time

YouTube | Paper

Sidewalk Gallery: An Interactive, Filterable Image Gallery of Sidewalk Accessibility Problems

YouTube | Paper

Talks

RampNet: A Two-Stage Pipeline for Bootstrapping Curb Ramp Detection in Streetscape Images from Open Government Metadata

Oct. 20, 2025 | ICCV CV4A11y Workshop

Honolulu, Hawaiʻi

John O'Meara, Jared Hwang, Zeyu Wang, Mikey Saugstad, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | PPTX | RampNet

A Pilot Study of Sidewalk Equity in Seattle Using Crowdsourced Sidewalk Assessment Data

Oct. 17, 2022 | UrbanAccess

Virtual

Chu Li, Lisa Orii, Mikey Saugstad, Stephen J. Mooney, Yochai Eisenberg, Delphine Labbé, Joy Hammel, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | PPTX | Project Sidewalk • Sidewalk Equity

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.