that may not be obvious to people , in order to find the optimal solution .”
The Application of Algorithms
Charis Doidge , Research Scientist at Ordnance Survey
How are deep learning developments being practically utilised by organisations throughout the UK ? At Ordnance Survey , Charis Doidge is heading up a team working in conjunction with Microsoft , training systems to recognise features on aerial photographs for several practical purposes . In the initial phases of this project , the AI focused on identifying roofs . Gigabit asked Charis for more information about this project : “ We are currently investing heavily in new sensed data and extraction techniques . Our ambition is to provide data for a future that is connected and autonomous , expanding our remit as we continue collaborating on ground-breaking smart cities , IoT , connected and autonomous vehicles ( CAV ) and 5G projects .
“ We have the building footprints of all structures within GB , and we investigated the prospect of automatically extracting roof type and adding this to our data . This builds upon the work previously conducted for roof type classification using Digital Surface Models with shallow machine learning networks and deriving building heights automatically for 3D city modelling .
“ This included testing deeper machine learning networks , and cloud-based infrastructure , working with a Microsoft team to get an end-to-end process set up . We developed the techniques further and looked at deeper networks using different toolsets . We utilised
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