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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

Posted by Richard Weait 

Comments (2)

Feb 04, 2011
Sam Larsen said...
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.
Feb 04, 2011
harry_wood said...
I've created a wiki page Bing road detect API.

There's also a mailing list thread of course

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