- The researchers tested their system on new images and found that it could discern road features fairly accurately.
- I am the senior editor for AI at MIT Technology Review .
- Some video games are now so visually realistic that they can let a computer vision learn about the real world (see ” Self-Driving Cars Can Learn a Lot by Playing Grand Theft Auto “).
- Researchers at Princeton University recently developed a computer vision and mapping system that gathered useful information about the physical properties of roads by studying Google Street View and comparing the scenes to the information provided in open-source mapping data.
- The researchers trained their system using 150,000 Street View panoramas.
Playing video games and surfing Google Street View can teach software a lot about driving.
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