Mapping the walk: A scalable computer vision approach for generating sidewalk network datasets from aerial imagery

M Hosseini, A Sevtsuk, F Miranda, RM Cesar Jr… - … Environment and Urban …, 2023 - Elsevier
While cities around the world are increasingly promoting streets and public spaces that
prioritize pedestrians over vehicles, significant data gaps have made pedestrian mapping …

Towards global-scale crowd+ AI techniques to map and assess sidewalks for people with disabilities

M Hosseini, M Saugstad, F Miranda, A Sevtsuk… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
There is a lack of data on the location, condition, and accessibility of sidewalks across the
world, which not only impacts where and how people travel but also fundamentally limits …

Crosswalk detection from satellite imagery for pedestrian network completion

R Verma, SV Ukkusuri - Transportation research record, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Pedestrian network creation and completion for various tasks in transportation planning
engineering generally requires laborious manual labeling of sidewalks and crosswalks. In …

Scaling Crowd+ AI Sidewalk Accessibility Assessments: Initial experiments examining label quality and cross-city training on performance

M Duan, S Kiami, L Milandin, J Kuang… - Proceedings of the 24th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Increasingly, crowds plus machine learning techniques are being used to semi-
automatically analyze the accessibility of built environments; however, open questions …

[PDF][PDF] Crowdsourcing and Sidewalk Data: A Preliminary Study on the Trustworthiness of OpenStreetMap Data in the US

KS Omar, G Moreira, D Hodczak, M Hosseini… - arXiv, 2022 - evl.uic.edu
Sidewalks play a pivotal role in urban mobility of everyday life. Ideally, sidewalks provide a
safe walkway for pedestrians, link public transportation facilities, and equip people with …

Influence of gender composition in pedestrian single-file experiments

S Paetzke, M Boltes, A Seyfried - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Various studies address the question of which factors are relevant to the course of the
fundamental diagram in single-file experiments. Some indicate that there are differences …

Pedestrian-accessible infrastructure inventory: enabling and assessing zero-shot segmentation on multi-mode geospatial data for all pedestrian types

J Xia, G Gong, J Liu, Z Zhu, H Tang - Journal of imaging, 2024 - mdpi.com
In this paper, a Segment Anything Model (SAM)-based pedestrian infrastructure
segmentation workflow is designed and optimized, which is capable of efficiently processing …

Segment Anything Model for Pedestrian Infrastructure Inventory: Assessing Zero-Shot Segmentation on Multi-Mode Geospatial Data

J Xia, G Gong, J Liu, Z Zhu, H Tang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.09918, 2023 - arxiv.org
In this paper, a Segment Anything Model (SAM)-based pedestrian infrastructure
segmentation workflow is designed and optimized, which is capable of efficiently processing …

Delivery robots are not just small autonomous cars! How to close the gap in environmental data for planning their operation?

M Plank, G Jager, S Zug - 2023 IEEE International Symposium …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The configuration of autonomous cars (maximum dimension, features, behavior rules) and
the operation area are well-defined. Hence, for a dedicated road, the mission planner can …

Determining Accessible Sidewalk Width by Extracting Obstacle Information from Point Clouds

CF Pinhão, C Eijgenstein, I Gornishka… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Obstacles on the sidewalk often block the path, limiting passage and resulting in frustration
and wasted time, especially for citizens and visitors who use assistive devices (wheelchairs …