TorontoCity: Seeing the World with a Million Eyes

Shenlong Wang, Min Bai, Gellert Mattyus, Hang Chu, Wenjie Luo, Bin Yang, Justin Liang, Joel Cheverie, Sanja Fidler, Raquel Urtasun

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Abstract

In this paper we introduce the TorontoCity benchmark, which covers the full greater Toronto area (GTA) with 712.5km2 of land, 8439km of road and around 400, 000 buildings. Our benchmark provides different perspectives of the world captured from airplanes, drones and cars driving around the city. Manually labeling such a large scale dataset is infeasible. Instead, we propose to utilize different sources of high-precision maps to create our ground truth. Towards this goal, we develop algorithms that allow us to align all data sources with the maps while requiring minimal human supervision. We have designed a wide variety of tasks including building height estimation (reconstruction), road centerline and curb extraction, building instance segmentation, building contour extraction (reorganization), semantic labeling and scene type classification (recognition). Our pilot study shows that most of these tasks are still difficult for modern convolutional neural networks.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2017
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages3028-3036
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9781538610329
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 22 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event16th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2017 - Venice, Italy
Duration: Oct 22 2017Oct 29 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision
Volume2017-October
ISSN (Print)1550-5499

Other

Other16th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2017
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityVenice
Period10/22/1710/29/17

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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