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GoScenic is a routing application that gets you to your destination while giving you the most scenic drive possible, based off your time constraints and scenery preference. Inspired by the paper "No more Autobahn! Scenic Route Generation Using Googles Street View" by N. Runge, P. Samsonov, D. Degraen, and J. Schoning.
GoScenic utilizes Google Maps APIs to identify road coordinates and collect Google Street View Images for each road coodinate. These images are then classified by the scenery they contain using the pretrained convolutional neural network created by B. Zhou, A. Lapedriza, J. Xiao, A. Torralba, and A. Oliva, and described in the paper “Learning Deep Features for Scene Recognition using Places Database.” Images could be classified as either mountains, water, nature and woods, fields, sightseeing or non-scenic. Through this process GoScenic classifies sections of road (in an approx. 1 km x 1km sections) as containing (or not containing) these different scenery types. Users are able to input a start and end location, max time and scenery preference (from one of the categories previously listed) and GoScenic will create a route that maximizes the number of scenic sections of road along their route, yet does not exceed their time limit.
Allie is from Seattle, WA and is the resident Washington State expert. She prefers "mountain" and "water" (which really means ocean) views. Allie's secret comps project was to convince everyone to come to Washington. She was successful. Catch Allie climbing or at CANOE house.
Emily is from Minneapolis, MN, a land home to many "nature and woods," "fields," and "water" views (if you count the shorelines of the 10,000 lakes). Typically seen bundled in a scarf and with a frisbee in hand, she's considering moving into the tunnel between Boliou and the CMC after graduation.
Evie loves "nature and woods" despite being from New York, NY. This project has inspired Evie to visit Washington State and also learn how to drive. Look for Evie playing her oboe.
Phoebe is from Durham, NC, a city halfway between some lovely "mountain" and "water" views. She looks forward to using GoScenic on future road trips to help with her fear of highways. In her free time, she loves reading Young Adult fiction and watching college basketball (go Duke!).