By comparing 1.6 million pairs of photos taken seven years apart, researchers from MIT’s Collective Learning Group now used a new computer vision system to quantify the physical improvement or deterioration of neighborhoods in five American cities, in an attempt to identify factors that predict urban change.
The project is called Streetchange. An article introducing the article can be found here.
Reference:Naik, Nikhil, Scott Duke Kominers, Ramesh Raskar, Edward L. Glaeser, and César A. Hidalgo. “Computer Vision Uncovers Predictors of Physical Urban Change.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114, no. 29 (July 18, 2017): 7571–76. doi:10.1073/pnas.1619003114.