A brief evaluation regarding the use of street view images for urban studies
Keywords:
Urban environment, Street View Images, Visual PerceptionAbstract
Street view images (SVIs) have the great potential to obtain essential data for assessing the urban street’s environmental conditions. SVI enables visualization of the urban landscape through a human-centric view. Therefore, some vertical detail about streets not detected by traditional remote sensing methods can be easily obtained and analyzed. street view images can be available freely through several web services. In addition, with the advances in digital image analysis and deep learning techniques, the results from SVI analysis can be improved. This new data source has been used in many types of urban studies in recent years. This study highlights the potential of SVIs as a new data tool for urban planning by presenting recent street-level urban studies based on SVIs analysis.
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