Learning to map street-side objects using multiple views. (Cartographie des objets à partir de vues multiples par apprentissage profond)

Ahmed Samy Nassar

Abstract: Creating inventories of street-side objects and their monitoring in cities is a labor-intensive and costly process. Field workers are known to conduct this process on-site to record properties about the object. These properties can be the location, species, height, and health of a tree as an example. To monitor cities, gathering such information on a large scale becomes challenging. With the abundance of imagery, adequate coverage of a city is achieved from different views provided by online mapping services (e.g., Google Maps and Street View, Mapillary). The availability of such imagery allows efficient creation and updating of inventories of street-side objects status by using computer vision methods such as object detection and multiple object tracking. This thesis aims at detecting and geo-localizing street-side objects, especially trees and street signs, from multiple views using novel deep learning methods.