Cities Are Physical Too: Using Computer Vision to Measure the Quality and Impact of Urban Appearance

For social scientists, developing an empirical connection between the physical appearance of a city and the behavior and health of its inhabitants has proved challenging due to a lack of data on urban appearance. Can we use computers to quantify urban appearance from street-level imagery? We describ...

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Main Authors: Naik, Nikhil Deepak, Raskar, Ramesh, Hidalgo Ramaciotti, Cesar A.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Economic Association 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107990
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9894-8865
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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6031-5982