Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning

[kurumi]

I work at an ML company, and in the corporate slack someone posted a iPhone photo of a freeway and some mountains.

I zoomed in, found it on Google Maps, and posted "It's here (https://goo.gl/maps/s4mMkeiZWJp9WZSY9). Beautiful mountains."

Response: "How did you do that?"

Me: "Clues are in the photo, though blurry. Freeway and Utah state route outline means probably I-15 (I-80 might also have exit numbers that high, but it would be out in the country). Exit numbers and their sequence fixes a location and direction."

Response: "Bah - I was hoping someone had created a tool that could recognized where a pic was taken by x-ref to Google Streetview. If that doesn't exist, some smart person should make it."

OP: "there is a training set for location by image: http://places.csail.mit.edu/"

There's also a demo, where you can upload your own photo and have their CNN (convolutional neural network) analyze it: http://places2.csail.mit.edu/demo.html

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