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...
Main Authors: | Naik, Nikhil Deepak, Raskar, Ramesh, Hidalgo Ramaciotti, Cesar A. |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory |
Format: | Article |
Language: | en_US |
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American Economic Association
2017
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107990 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9894-8865 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3254-3224 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6031-5982 |
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