Wrapping Up a Fall'25 Publication Season
Congratulations to Makeability Lab students and collaborators on a busy but fruitful autumn publication season. Some specific highlights:
- High school student John O'Meara published RampNet, a state-of-the-art curb ramp detection pipeline and dataset fundamentally advancing our work in urban accessibility. See code and dataset here: https://github.com/ProjectSidewalk/RampNet
- PhD student Jared Hwang published AccessParkCV, the first-ever automated method to recognize and characterize disability parking spaces at scale. See code and dataset here: https://github.com/makeabilitylab/AccessParkCV
- PhD student Chu Li continues her work in making geo-visualizations accessible for people who are blind and low-vision with GeoQA^3
- PhD student Jae (Jaewook) Lee continues to lead the way in creating new, innovative AR solutions for creativity and accessibility, including ImaginatAR (with Niantic, Inc.) and SonoCraftAR (with Dhruv “DJ” Jain and the Soundability Lab)
- PhD student Xia Su continues his deep technical Human-AI work on advancing methods to map, reconstruct, and assess indoor spaces, including FlyMeThrough and Accessibility Scout (with William Huang and Yang Zhang at UCLA)
