Re:StreetLearn: Learning to navigate in cities without a map
by mopeloi on Thursday June 28, 2018 @08:54AM
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So, is this picking up on large landmarks which are visible in StreetView? Sun position in imagery? In Manhattan can it see a sign reading W 53rd St and know whether to go north or south to its destination? The paper suggests that there are learned landmarks, but doesn't talk about street signs at all. As a New Yorker, that would be the first method I would use to reach a destination.
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Re:StreetLearn: Learning to navigate in cities without a map
by curiousgal on Thursday June 28, 2018 @09:07AM
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It's a neural network so chances are, we'll never know how it came up with it's decision. For CNNs we can look at the output of each layers to get a hint but the more diverse the architecture is (such as in this example) the harder that becomes.