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Keywords: accessible urban navigation, urban informatics, urban data mining, urban accessibility, tracking urban change
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Jun 01, 2019 | Jon
Congrats to Summer 2018 interns Johnson Kuang and Shiven Bhatt from Inglemoor High School and Redmond High School, respectively, for earning direct admission into the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. Last year, Johnson worked on developing this Makeability Lab website while Shiven worked on Project Sidewalk. We are incredibly fortunate to have both Johnson and Shiven back in the Makeability Lab this year. Johnson is working on the AccessVis team while Shiven is working on Urban Accessibility Evolution
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Semi-automatically Tracking Changes in Urban Accessibility
We examine the feasibility of using Google Street View’s “time machine” feature and computer vision to track changes in urban accessibility over time.
Publications
A Feasibility Study of Using Google Street View and Computer Vision to Track the Evolution of Urban Accessibility
Extended Abstract Proceedings of ASSETS 2018
PDF | doi | Citation • Project Sidewalk • Urban Accessibility Evolution
Talks
Jan. 22, 2020 | Google Tech Talk
Seattle, WA
PDF | PPTX | Project Sidewalk | Deep Learning for Sidewalk Assessment | AccessVis | Accessibility-Infused Maps | Urban Accessibility Evolution | Transportation Analytics