New strategies to improve the quality of urban pedestrian environments are becoming increasingly important in sustainable city planning. This trend has been driven by advantages that active mobility provides terms health, social, and environmental aspects. Our work explores idea walkability. concept refers friendliness environment traffic. We propose a framework based on multi-criteria decision...

urban spaces are like a dramatic stage, in which buildings and street’s facades are the actors. while people are passing through streets, they will communicate the information with the environment, as well as, explore and study the spaces. people transfer the greatest number of information from the urban space and the surrounding environment through their visual senses. hiking determines one of...

1 ABSTRACT Interpreting a map in real time, whether it be on paper or a smartphone, is often confusing and time-consuming. POWerNAV (Pedestrian Overlay onto World of Navigational Augmented View) is designed to improve the pedestrian navigation process by overlaying data from a map, like building names and streets, onto the user view via augmented reality (AR). The overlay integrates map data wi...

Investigating the Views of Urban Streets in terms Citizens' Perception (Case Study: Pedestrian May 15, Tehran)

INTRODUCTION A critical building block of a functional successful city is the presence of vibrant streets; streets that encourage walking. The level of pedestrian activity is an indicator of a great street as well as economic viability and is often used in determining rental values for retail premises. Walking creates a healthy population and is reflective of a liveable city. Walking is also cr...

Pedestrian detection is a classical and hot issue in object detection. Many approaches have been proposed in this area. However, it remains a challenging problem due to the variances in lighting conditions, scene structures, clothes, view angles, postures, scales, occlusions, etc. Previous survey [1] has summarized that using better features plays an important role in improving detection qualit...