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High-resolution optical satellite sensors, combined with dense stereo algorithms, have made it possible to reconstruct 3D city models from space. However, these models are, in practice, rather noisy and tend to miss small geometric features…
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Road surface extraction from remote sensing images using deep learning methods has achieved good performance, while most of the existing methods are based on fully supervised learning, which requires a large amount of training data with…
The World Health Organization has listed the design of safer intersections as a key intervention to reduce global road trauma. This article presents the first study to systematically analyze the design of all intersections in a large…