Hey All,<br><br>As of yesterday, the Google Summer of Code has ended. With some appropriate pride, I offer you signFinder: <a href="http://code.google.com/p/signfinder/">http://code.google.com/p/signfinder/</a> .<br>As part of the OpenStreetPhoto project, this program detects, segments, and reads dutch street-signs. For high-quality pictures (and not too old street-signs), performance is good.<br>
<br>The project is right now trained to read dutch street-signs, but as long as they have a distinct color, there's no reason why it couldn't read foreign street-signs. Read this: <a href="http://code.google.com/p/signfinder/wiki/TrainingOtherCountries">http://code.google.com/p/signfinder/wiki/TrainingOtherCountries</a> document on how to adapt the signFinder to street-signs of other countries.<br>
<br>The end of the summer of code, doesn't mean that I'll stop working on this project. There are still methods to explore, and performance to improve.<br>More importantly: I'm looking for practical applications for this software. I'll be working with Stefan and others on an integration with the OpenStreetView / OpenStreetPhoto project, but suggestions on an exact use are welcome, as well as wholly unrelated ideas.<br>
<br>I just saw that a discussion going on about video in OpenStreetView. I expect to have a video to play with soon, and will report if results are reasonable.<br><br>- Tijs <br><br> <br><br>