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REVISITING THE ENGLISH STATUS IN THE OUTER AND EXPANDING CIRCLES: INSIGHTS FROM GOOGLE STREET VIEW®
LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language TeachingGlobalization and glocalization may affect the use of English in Kachru’s (1986) Outer Circle and Expanding Circle countries. This study revisits the status of English by observing its use in the commercial signboards in Malaysia (Petaling Street) and ...
Hasyim Kurniawan +2 more
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Viewing obesogenic advertising in children's neighbourhoods using Google Street View [PDF]
Geographical Research, 2018 AbstractThe advertising of unhealthy food and beverages forms an important component of obesogenic environments. Such marketing to children is a key health determinant because of its impact on dietary preference and food purchasing behaviour. The location of outdoor advertising is important in exploring obesogenic environments and children's ...
Victoria Egli +8 more
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Street View Imagery Analysis in a Computational Notebook
REGIONStreet view imagery, capturing detailed streetscapes at human eye-level, has received significant attention in the past decade. Street view images can be leveraged to observe the built environment from both element- and scene-levels.
Yuhao Kang
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No More Discrimination: Cross City Adaptation of Road Scene Segmenters
, 2017 Despite the recent success of deep-learning based semantic segmentation, deploying a pre-trained road scene segmenter to a city whose images are not presented in the training set would not achieve satisfactory performance due to dataset biases.
Chen, Wei-Yu +5 more
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How we can use Google Street View data to help build healthier communities. [PDF]
, 2015 The last decade has seen an explosion of ‘Big Data’ sources about society which have opened up new avenues of research for social scientists. In new research, Li Yin looks at how Google Street View can be used to make more accurate pedestrian counts in ...
Yin, Li
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Combining crowdsourcing and google street view to identify street-level accessibility problems
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2013 Poorly maintained sidewalks, missing curb ramps, and other obstacles pose considerable accessibility challenges; however, there are currently few, if any, mechanisms to determine accessible areas of a city a priori. In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of using untrained crowd workers from Amazon Mechanical Turk (turkers) to find, label, and ...
Kotaro Hara, Vicki Le, Jon Froehlich
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Use of Tencent Street View Imagery for Visual Perception of Streets
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2017 The visual perception of streets plays an important role in urban planning, and contributes to the quality of residents’ lives. However, evaluation of the visual perception of streetscapes has been restricted by inadequate techniques and the availability
Liang Cheng +5 more
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Tidskrift för LitteraturvetenskapGlobal localization. Google Earth and the experience of place attachment in GeoGuessr, Houellebecq and Darrieussecq The purpose of this article is to analyze literary texts and other cultural practices that relate to or use content from Google Earth ...
Gustaf Marcus
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The use of geographical applications for micro-planning school locations : the @SCHOOL app for preschools in Ghent, Belgium [PDF]
, 2014 Parallel with the increased use of internet technology, more and more data becomes freely accessible\ However, most of this data is only available in its raw form and centrally managed and thus not legible or applicable for non-professionals.
De Maeyer, Philippe +3 more
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Accurate Image Localization Based on Google Maps Street View [PDF]
, 2010 Finding an image's exact GPS location is a challenging computer vision problem that has many real-world applications. In this paper, we address the problem of finding the GPS location of images with an accuracy which is comparable to hand-held GPS devices.
Amir Roshan Zamir, Mubarak Shah
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