Publication IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and SystemsVol.E96-DNo.1pp.129-133 Publication Date: 2013/01/01 Online ISSN: 1745-1361 DOI: 10.1587/transinf.E96.D.129 Print ISSN: 0916-8532 Type of Manuscript: LETTER Category: Data Engineering, Web Information Systems Keyword: point of interest, street-level imagery, conflation, text extraction,
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Summary: We present a novel point of interest (POI) construction approach based on street-level imagery (SLI) such as Google StreetView. Our method consists of: (1) the creation of a conflation map between an SLI trace and a vector map; (2) the detection of the corresponding buildings between the SLI scene and the conflation map; and (3) POI name extraction from a signboard in the SLI scene by user-interactive text recognition. Finally, a POI is generated through a combination of the POI name and attributes of the building object on a vector map. The proposed method showed recall of 92.99% and precision of 97.10% for real-world POIs.