DuMapper: Towards Automatic Verification of Large-Scale POIs with Street Views at Baidu Maps

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.18073v1
• Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 05:54:33 GMT
• Title: DuMapper: Towards Automatic Verification of Large-Scale POIs with Street Views at Baidu Maps
• Abstract summary: DuMapper is an automatic system for large-scale POI verification with the multimodal street-view data at Baidu Maps.<n>DuMapper takes the signboard image and the coordinates of a real-world place as input to generate a low-dimensional vector.<n>It can significantly increase the throughput of POI verification by $50$ times.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: With the increased popularity of mobile devices, Web mapping services have become an indispensable tool in our daily lives. To provide user-satisfied services, such as location searches, the point of interest (POI) database is the fundamental infrastructure, as it archives multimodal information on billions of geographic locations closely related to people's lives, such as a shop or a bank. Therefore, verifying the correctness of a large-scale POI database is vital. To achieve this goal, many industrial companies adopt volunteered geographic information (VGI) platforms that enable thousands of crowdworkers and expert mappers to verify POIs seamlessly; but to do so, they have to spend millions of dollars every year. To save the tremendous labor costs, we devised DuMapper, an automatic system for large-scale POI verification with the multimodal street-view data at Baidu Maps. DuMapper takes the signboard image and the coordinates of a real-world place as input to generate a low-dimensional vector, which can be leveraged by ANN algorithms to conduct a more accurate search through billions of archived POIs in the database for verification within milliseconds. It can significantly increase the throughput of POI verification by $50$ times. DuMapper has already been deployed in production since \DuMPOnline, which dramatically improves the productivity and efficiency of POI verification at Baidu Maps. As of December 31, 2021, it has enacted over $405$ million iterations of POI verification within a 3.5-year period, representing an approximate workload of $800$ high-performance expert mappers.

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