Automatic road detection from imagery

Steve Coast has been busy since his arrival at Bing a while back. They
have rolled out a neat, automated road finder service. Have a look at
the demonstration video here:

http://magicshop.cloudapp.net/

And the announcement and more details here:

http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/maps/archive/2011/02/03/automatica…

Road image by Nicholas_T http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicholas_t/
is licensed CC-By http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en_CA

2 thoughts on “Automatic road detection from imagery

  1. Sam Larsen

    this is great – i was thinking of putting together an automated building recognition tool for Bing Imagery. Wasn’t so sure about Bing license implications – maybe Bing can do this also.

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