David Jacobs

David Jacobs

Professor, Computer Science
University of Maryland
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David Jacobs is currently a collaborator with the Makeability Lab. David has collaborated with the lab for 12.6 years and contributed to a project called Project Sidewalk as well as 3 publications.
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Projects

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Project Sidewalk

2012 – Present

Papers

Tohme: Detecting Curb Ramps in Google Street View Using Crowdsourcing, Computer Vision, and Machine Learning

Kotaro Hara, Jin Sun, Robert Moore, David Jacobs, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | Citation | Project Sidewalk

An Initial Study of Automatic Curb Ramp Detection with Crowdsourced Verification using Google Street View Images

Kotaro Hara, Jin Sun, Noa Chazan, David Jacobs, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | Citation | Project Sidewalk

Exploring Early Solutions for Automatically Identifying Inaccessible Sidewalks in the Physical World using Google Street View

Kotaro Hara, Victoria Le, Jin Sun, David Jacobs, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | Citation | Project Sidewalk

We design, build, and evaluate new interactive tools and techniques to address pressing societal challenges. Makeability refers both to how our technological innovations make new abilities possible for humans as well as our educational mission to help students gain new abilities as they learn and grow through research, invention, and human-centered design.

Recent News

Nov. 01, 2022

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Oct. 14, 2022

Professor Froehlich Receives PacTrans Outstanding Researcher Award

July 02, 2020

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