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<p>Hey all,</p>
<p>We've been discussing machine learning and deep learning
approaches quite often in the last couple weeks. New tools such as
the <a
href="https://medium.com/devseed/ml-enabler-completing-the-machine-learning-pipeline-for-mapping-3aae94fa9e94">ML
Enabler</a> or the <a
href="https://github.com/facebookincubator/RapiD">rapId editor</a>
might change the way crowdsourced data is produced in the future.
I guess, that these will also be heavily discussed during this
year's HOT summit and state of the map conference (come to
Heidelberg! ;)). <br>
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<p>Since I'm working at a research institution, I wanted to share
another piece of (scientific) work on that topic. Together with
colleagues from the <a href="https://heigit.org/">Heidelberg
Institute for Geoinformation Technology</a> and the <a
href="https://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/gis/index_en.html">GIScience
Research Group</a> we investigated the potential of Deep
Learning in combination with <a href="http://mapswipe.org/">MapSwipe’s</a>
crowdsourcing approach. If this sounds interesting to you, you can
find out more at the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2019/07/31/mapping-human-settlements-with-higher-accuracy-and-less-volunteer-efforts-by-combining-crowdsourcing-and-deep-learning/">blogpost
</a>I wrote or directly look at our paper:</p>
<p>Herfort, B.; Li, H.; Fendrich, S.; Lautenbach, S.; Zipf, A. <a
href="https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/11/15/1799">Mapping Human
Settlements with Higher Accuracy and Less Volunteer Efforts by
Combining Crowdsourcing and Deep Learning</a>. <em>Remote Sens.</em>
<strong>2019</strong>, <em>11</em>, 1799.</p>
<p>Together with the broader MapSwipe community we are currently
working on new project types for MapSwipe as well. This will also
allow us to integrate machine learning results better into our
existing crowdsourcing workflows. Sounds Interesting?<a
href="https://github.com/mapswipe"> Check out MapSwipe’s Github
repositories</a> or join the MapSwipe working group.</p>
<p>Have a nice day,</p>
<p>Benni<br>
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