Hi!
It seems to me that Mapillary is blurring more and more erroneous features:
For example, the place name sign in this image:
Or the these road name signs:
Or the hotel sign in this:
I contribute to Mapillary to later derive data and insert them into OSM. This king of blurring is really annoying.
Can it be amended?
Thanks,
Andrea
It seems that Berlin street signs also started to be blurred. Example: https://www.mapillary.com/app/user/eserte?lat=52.5508804&lng=13.2584998&z=17&mapStyle=OpenStreetMap&menu=false&dateFrom=2020-04-01&panos=true&focus=photo&pKey=172760492113901&x=0.11428188127936695&y=0.5117670809814316&zoom=1.179754864576905 (should be “Straße L” and “Straße C”).
Similar erroneous blur here : Mapillary : the blurred word is BROODAUTOMAAT : a vending machine where you can get a loaf of bread when the adjacent bakery is closed.
There is a way to suggest to add blurs, but in this case I’d like to nominate a blur to be removed.
Looking at Mapillary : the name of the busstop is blurred - must be, as smaller print in destinations is readable.
EDIT (couple of minutes later) : not sure whether you’d need to blur ‘scouts’ in the sign directing visitors along a public way to the scouts hall? Blur the house number of the Scouts? See pKey=112906941807960 , but sure no need to blur part of a standard sign directing people to an AED / defibrillator?
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On a different note : it would be helpful if the contributor could step through all pics they submitted that day, rather than pick each individual batch of three or ten pics?
Another example: Mapillary
Note the blurred small sign below “Landsberger Allee” — it contains the house numbers in this street segment.
(The house numbers were the main reason I made this photo, but luckily I still have the original photo available)
There are definitely improvements that can be made to the CV algorithms here - its a tricky problem, and something we hope to look at improving in 2024. Thanks for your patience folks.
Hi @GITNE - we hear you. There are definitely improvements that can be made to the CV algorithms here - and something we hope to look at improving in the future.
My feeling is that the grace period was abolished as Facebook absolutely does not want to be criticised for privacy violation.
I confirm that I too. Most of the images we acquire at 360 degrees, we acquire to then map the house numbers. It happens very often that some numbers get blurred for no reason. A functionality opposite to the existing one that allows you to signal the need for further blurring would be really useful, that of signaling to remove unnecessary blurring.
Sorry to hear @GITNE - it looks like this street sign was detected as a license plate and blurred. There will unfortunately always be some false positives - and we will continue to improve the detection accuracy.
It seems that face recognition has improved. @boris Thanks for it to the Mapillary Team.
Glad to hear it - yes, we made some adjustments to our thresholds for blurring.
