Something that Disturbs: Encounters between Animals and Optical Machines

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2020) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pauline Chasseray-Peraldi
Keyword(s):  
Digital Images ◽  
Google Street View ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Street View ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
The Web

Images of encounters between animals and drones or Google Street View cars are quite viral on the web. This article focuses on the different regimes of animacy and conflicts of affects in these images using an anthropo- semiotic approach. It investigates how other- ness reveals something that exceeds us, from the materiality of the machine to systems of values. It suggests that the disturbance of ani- mal presence in contemporary digital images helps us to read media technologies.

scholarly journals Web Scraper Utilizes Google Street view Images to Power a University Tour

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peiyuan Sun ◽  
Yu Sun
Keyword(s):  
College Campuses ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Public Buildings ◽  
Google Street View ◽  
Virtual Tour ◽  
Street View ◽  
Correct Location ◽  
The Web

Due to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, college tours are no longer available, so many students have lost the opportunity to see their dream school’s campus. To solve this problem, we developed a product called “Virtourgo,” a university virtual tour website that uses Google Street View images gathered from a web scraper allowing students to see what college campuses are like even when tours are unavailable during the pandemic. The project consists of 3/4 parts: the web scraper script, the GitHub server, the Google Domains DNS Server, and the HTML files. Some challenges we met include scraping repeated pictures and letting the HTML dropdown menu jump to the correct location. We solved these by implementing Python and Javascript functions that specifically target such challenges. Finally, after experimenting with all the functions of the web scraper and website, we confirmed that it works as expected and can scrape and deliver tours of any university campus or public buildings we want.

scholarly journals Proposal of System for Calculating Sky View Factor Using Google Street View

2021 ◽  
pp. 313-324
Author(s):  
Shoko Nishio ◽  
Fumiko Ito
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
View Factor ◽  
Panoramic Image ◽  
Original Image ◽  
Google Street View ◽  
Sky View Factor ◽  
Street View ◽  
Current Point ◽  
Extended Area ◽  
The Web

AbstractIn recent years, big data entered use in various fields. Google Street View (hereinafter called “GSV”) can be regarded as open big data, and its images can be obtained using API. The streets can be viewed 360° horizontally and 290° vertically from each point on the web. In addition to those, zooming up is available, and the viewpoint can be moved approximately 10 m forward or backward to/from the current point. The original image to provide the view is the panoramic image associated with the latitude and longitude information on the street consecutively at intervals of 10 m, and they exist as massive data on the web. We determine the area of the sky using these images from GSV. In this research, we calculate the sky view factor (hereinafter called “SVF”) in an extended area by defining the area of the sky with the SVF and utilizing the computer.

scholarly journals Aestheticizing Google critique: A 20-year retrospective

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 205395171876862 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Search Engine ◽  
Deep Web ◽  
Google Street View ◽  
Street View ◽  
Information Politics ◽  
Filter Bubble ◽  
Cultural Responses ◽  
Critical Interest ◽  
The Web

With Google marking its 20th year online, the piece provides a retrospective of cultural commentary and select works of Google art that have transformed the search engine into an object of critical interest. Taken up are artistic and cultural responses to Google by independent artists but also by cultural critics and technology writers, including the development of such evocative notions as the deep web, flickering man and filter bubble. Among the critiques that have taken shape in the works to be discussed here are objects and subjects brought into being by Google (such as ‘spammy neighbourhoods’), Googlization, Google’s information politics, its licensing (or what one is agreeing to when searching) as well as issues surrounding specific products such as Google Street View, as Google leaves the web, capturing more spaces to search.

scholarly journals Web Scraper Utilizes Google Street View Images to Power a University Tour

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peiyuan Sun ◽  
Yu Sun
Keyword(s):  
College Campuses ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Public Buildings ◽  
Google Street View ◽  
Virtual Tour ◽  
Street View ◽  
Correct Location ◽  
The Web

Due to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, college tours are no longer available, so many students have lost the opportunity to see their dream school’s campus. To solve this problem, we developed a product called “Virtourgo,” a university virtual tour website that uses Google Street View images gathered from a web scraper allowing students to see what college campuses are like even when tours are unavailable during the pandemic. The project consists of 3/4 parts: the web scraper script, the GitHub server, the Google Domains DNS Server, and the HTML files. Some challenges we met include scraping repeated pictures and letting the HTML dropdown menu jump to the correct location. We solved these by implementing Python and Javascript functions that specifically target such challenges. Finally, after experimenting with all the functions of the web scraper and website, we confirmed that it works as expected and can scrape and deliver tours of any university campus or public buildings we want.

scholarly journals Domain Adaptation Deep Attention Network for Automatic Logo Detection and Recognition in Google Street View

IEEE Access ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Ervin Yohannes ◽  
Chih-Yang Lin ◽  
Timothy K. Shih ◽  
Chen-Ya Hong ◽  
Avirmed Enkhbat ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Domain Adaptation ◽  
Attention Network ◽  
Google Street View ◽  
Street View ◽  
Detection And Recognition

Adaptation and testing of a microscale audit tool to assess liveability using google street view: MAPS-liveability

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 101226
Author(s):  
Claire L. Cleland ◽  
Sara Ferguson ◽  
Frank Kee ◽  
Paul Kelly ◽  
Andrew James Williams ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Audit Tool ◽  
Google Street View ◽  
Street View

scholarly journals STATISTICAL ANALYSIS VIA GOOGLE STREET VIEW OF SHOP FACADE DESIGN

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (39) ◽  
pp. 693-698
Author(s):  
Eisuke TABATA ◽  
Kazemitsu FUKAMATSU ◽  
Kazuhisa TSUNEKAWA ◽  
Gen TANIGUCHI
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Google Street View ◽  
Street View

scholarly journals Mapping Air Pollution with Google Street View Cars: Efficient Approaches with Mobile Monitoring and Land Use Regression

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (21) ◽  
pp. 12563-12572 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle P. Messier ◽  
Sarah E. Chambliss ◽  
Shahzad Gani ◽  
Ramon Alvarez ◽  
Michael Brauer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Mobile Monitoring ◽  
Land Use Regression ◽  
Google Street View ◽  
Street View
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