Information Retrieval from Multi-Sensor Data for Enriching Location Services at HERE Technologies

Abstract

HERE Technologies provides real-time location services that enable people, enterprises, and cities around the world to harness the power of location and create innovative solutions for a safer and more efficient living. Multimedia retrieval techniques and sensor fusion approaches are essential for enriching location services and for keeping the underlying map up to date. In this talk, I will give an overview of some of the work we do in the CTO Research group to support existing location services and enable future ones. We aim to automatically extract useful information from massive collections of images, LiDAR point clouds, car sensor data and open web data. I will present work related to image recognition for map making purposes, information retrieval for points of interest enrichment, and work related to creating a highly accurate map of the roads and cities for the future autonomous navigation services.