Novel AI system manages road infrastructure using Google Street View

MELBOURNE: Scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) based system to monitor street signs needing replacement or repair by tapping into Google Street View images.
The fully-automated system developed by researchers at RMIT University in Australia is trained using AI-powered object detection to identify street signs in the freely available images.
Municipal authorities currently spend large amounts of time and money monitoring and recording the geolocation of traffic infrastructure manually, a task which also exposes workers to unnecessary traffic risks, researchers said.