Gurram Munirathnam, Venkatesh ORCID: 0000-0002-4393-9267, Pereira, Bianca and Little, Suzanne ORCID: 0000-0003-3281-3471 (2021) Urban footpath image dataset to assess pedestrian mobility. In: UrbanMM-21, 20–24 Oct 2021, Chengdu, China (Online). ISBN 978-1-4503-8669-2/21/10
Abstract
This paper presents an urban footpath image dataset captured
through crowdsourcing using the mapillary service (mobile ap-
plication) and demonstrating its use for data analytics applications by employing object detection and image segmentation. The study was motivated by the unique, individual mobility challenges that many people face in navigating public footpaths, in particular those who use mobility aids such as long cane, guide digs, crutches, wheelchairs, etc., when faced with changes in pavement surface (tactile pavements) or obstacles such as bollards and other street furniture. Existing image datasets are generally captured from an instrumented vehicle and do not provide sufficient or adequate images of the footpaths from the pedestrian perspective. A citizen science project (Crowd4Access) worked with user groups and volunteers to gather a sample image dataset resulting in a set of 39,642 images collected in a range of different conditions. Preliminary studies to detect tactile pavements and perform semantic segmentation using state-of-the-art computer vision models demonstrate the utility of this dataset to enable better understanding of urban mobility issues.
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Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Event Type: | Workshop |
Refereed: | Yes |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | urban elements; convolution neural network; object detection; semantic segmentation; street-view analytics |
Subjects: | Computer Science > Artificial intelligence Computer Science > Image processing Computer Science > Machine learning |
DCU Faculties and Centres: | DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing Research Initiatives and Centres > INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics |
Published in: | Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Computing for Urban Data (UrbanMM ’21). . Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ISBN 978-1-4503-8669-2/21/10 |
Publisher: | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
Official URL: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3475721.3484313 |
Copyright Information: | © 2021 The Owner/ Authors |
Use License: | This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License |
Funders: | Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) under Grant Numbers SFI/12/RC/2289_P2, 16/SP/3804, European Regional Development Fund |
ID Code: | 26261 |
Deposited On: | 26 Oct 2021 15:42 by Venkatesh Gurram Munirathnam . Last Modified 16 Jan 2023 16:08 |
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