Student research opportunities
User friendly navigation with landmarks
Project Code: CECS_64
This project is available at the following levels:
CS single semester, Honours, Summer Scholar, Masters, PhD
Supervisors:
Dr Lars PeterssonAssoc Professor Jochen Renz
Outline:
Everyone that have been using a GPS system knows that some of the navigational descriptions are very ambiguous and does not always help very much. Using landmarks such as churches, petrol stations etc seems to be a much more natural way of describing a route. For example, turn left at the petrol station. In this project we combine computer vision with route representation to come up with a more intuitive way of describing routes.
The project has two parts. 1) Use a vehicle mounted camera to detect useful landmarks and their visibility along a route. 2) Develop a route representation that allows us to compute optimal route descriptions based on landmark visibility. The project can be carried out by one student or two that collaborate.
