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Mapillary Now Able to Recognize and Label Objects in the Wild

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Re: Mapillary Now Able to Recognize and Label Objects in the Wild

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>Here is a short list of areas where semantic segmentation is available: Graz, Paris, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Dar es Salaam, and Mexico City. If the method is general, why only these areas?

I'm guessing limited computing power while refining the algorithms.

Re: Mapillary Now Able to Recognize and Label Objects in the Wild

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>Here is a short list of areas where semantic segmentation is available: Graz, Paris, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Dar es Salaam, and Mexico City. If the method is general, why only these areas?

It's because we need to upgrade and optimize some of the backend storage layout in order to cope with the data produced.

(I'm part of the Mapillary team)

Re: Mapillary Now Able to Recognize and Label Objects in the Wild

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>Here is a short list of areas where semantic segmentation is available: Graz, Paris, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Dar es Salaam, and Mexico City. If the method is general, why only these areas?

It's because we need to upgrade and optimize some of the backend storage layout in order to cope with the data produced. (I'm part of the Mapillary team)

Thanks for elucidating - makes sense.