Is there an option to filter images by camera models? And if not, could it be added? The quality of Mapillary images ranges from low-quality images to professional high-resolution imagery and it would be a great help to look out for HQ images, for analyzing areas, for example. Thanks in advance ;3
@HylianTraveller - thank you for the feature request. This functionality is not currently available, however we do have ability to filter for 360 imagery and date (which might be proxies). It would be interesting in the future to explore filtering by:
- high resolution images only (perhaps even setting which resolution you consider “high”)
- image quality (filtering out blurry, dark, etc images)
I’m not sure about filtering by camera models specifically as there are many of these and you’re probably looking for some sort of “high quality” images rather than the camera itself, correct?
Could you share a little bit more about the use case you have in mind? cc: @caglarpmeta
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Thank you for the detailed answer!
Yes, “high-quality” imagery is more important than from a specific camera model. I thought searching by model could be easier to implement, as the name is already in the metadata. Searching by high-quality imagery could maybe be done by amount of pixels and sensor size of the respective used model (APS-C, full-frame). Taking 108 MP images with a smartphone has a high amount of pixels, but not optical resolution, because of the smaller sensor size.
I sometimes look after good imagery for Wikipedia articles, but I think filtering out some images could also improve the user experience, as some files experience the issues you described :).
Kind regards
Got it, that makes sense. We’ve added this as a feature request to our backlog.
Dear @boris, what happened to this feature? I see that it has been deprecated. I can implement camera model filtering in the widget I’m currently developing, but I was wondering why this awesome feature was removed.
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I believe this feature was removed during the Mapillary to Meta infrastructure migration (about 6 years ago) when the team needed to very quickly migrate features from one tech stack to another, and I think this one didn’t make it. It was before my time, but I agree that this is useful, so we will look at bringing it back as part of our backlog work (and of course using new and improved ML models)
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Some sort of quality moderation would be a great addition to Mapillary. Some contributions with 1280Ă—720 Pixels and dark and burnt areas are not really useful, but on the other side high-quality contributors like UWRAPID and osmplus_org :3
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I am all for camera make and model filters plus a resolution filter because these should be fairly easy and quickly to implement.
I also fully agree with @sukruburakcetin that an AI generated quality score and filter are going to be really useful. Since Mapillary understandably does not want to set a hard minimum image quality bar (yet), it is also absolutely understandable that one should be able to filter out low quality imagery.
There was also this very promising Amazon Rekognition joint venture:
@boris What happened to it? I would really love to finally see an OCR detected street name signs map layer. Potentially, also a house number map layer? This would be awesome!
Great feature requests! I think the OCR stuff was back when Mapillary was a partially paid service (“If you’re interested in buying parking sign data”) - certainly value there!