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Travel Destination: Bahia, Brazil
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Student develops software that removes pedestrians from Google, San Diego, America - Aug 2010
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A woman with an umbrella before the automatic pedestrian remover replaces her with background scenery.
New Software Can Remove People From Google Street View
A student has developed software that can REMOVE people from Google's controversial Street View.
Concerns about privacy have been raised since the online service was launched, with people unaware they have been snapped by Google's roaming camera cars.
But computer science graduate student Arturo Flores from the University of California, San Diego, has worked on a system that removes pedestrians and replaces the holes in the images with an approximation of the actual background behind each person.
These corresponding background pixels are pulled from the image taken right before or right after the image in question.
But the software is far from perfect at this stage of development - with bizarre sights left for the viewer.
The proof-of-concept system launched at this summer's IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Vision saw handheld items such as umbrellas left floating in the air, while a man walking his dog is removed leaving the dog looking like a stray.
Flores says his work would help protect privacy as, despite the fact that faces are blurred on Street View, people can still be identified by their clothing and location.
He explains: "Some European countries have claimed Google is in breach of one or more EU privacy laws. As a result, Google has introduced a sliding window based system that automatically blurs faces and license plates in street view images with a high recall rate.
"While this goes a long way in addressing the privacy concerns, many personally identifable features still remain on the un-blurred person. Articles of clothing, body shape, height, etc may be considered personally identifable. Combined with the geo-positioned ...
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