Abstract:
Usage of online maps has grown to be an essential in the contemporary world and for
travelers since it allow users to access them from any place at any time. There are few
main online maps people use such as Google map, Bing map, Yahoo map etc. Usually
people find more accurate results from Google maps and therefore many use Google maps
as the default map. But there are some occasions where the map does not give any results
for searched locations in rural areas. This make it very inconvenient for the travelers since
they can even be lost due to that. Also sales representatives who have to go for sales in
rural areas find it difficult find unknown small grocery shops and other outlets which are
not shown in the map. There is no option when the map says “No such place found” which
would not impress the end users. Because of that Google themselves started the Google
map community as a solution to improve the map experience but still there are many
places which are not shown on the google map. So to overcome this problem OLSUS
system was introduced which uses the street view images to capture different name
boards in either side of the road and process them to find locations that cannot be found
in the map. A single deep neural network was used for the text recognition and detection
and the implemented system was tested thoroughly under different conditions. And the
system was evaluated by evaluators of various domains.
