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Related: Anyone else noticed how Google Maps is now doing more subtle watermarking where they embed their logo into Street View images using machine learning, e
by avar 8y ago
Related: Anyone else noticed how Google Maps is now doing more subtle watermarking where they embed their logo into Street View images using machine learning, e.g. here: https://imgur.com/a/0T8wP2u https://imgur.com/a/0T8wP2u URL: https://www.google.com/maps/@52.3730304,4.8793692,3a,68y,194.22h,83.04t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s4WICi0WcvZTyKwm8wM3brw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 https://www.google.com/maps/@52.3730304,4.8793692,3a,68y,194...
Edit: Look a the yellow area above the door obscured by the Land Rover. They embedded their logo along the shape & size of an appropriately sized feature on the building, as opposed to somewhere randomly where it would be more visible as it crosses e.g. the boundary between a building and a tree.
When I first spotted this I thought Google's logo was actually on that building, but it disappears as you zoom in/out.
- eridius 8y agoI can’t figure out what I’m supposed to be looking for in that image.
- cbg0 8y agoThere's also another Google text to the right of the rear wheel.
- klodolph 8y agoI think that's the point. It's hard to see, on purpose. Behind the land rover, there is a door with a balcony above it. Just below the balcony, but almost touching the balcony, is "Google". It took me a while to find.
- hiccuphippo 8y agoI didn't noticed it in the imgur link, the image was probably compressed. You can see it in the google maps link.
- eridius 8y agoNow that I know what to look for, I can see it in your imgur image, but I don't actually see it on the live Google Maps link. I do se a small one overlapping the steering wheel on the car, which doesn't appear to be particularly smart placement.
- bestnameever 8y agoyeah I only see watermarks if I'm zoomed in all the way and they are way smaller and more transparant than what was in the imgur image.
- gregschlom 8y agoWhat makes you think it's not just pure luck? I spotted at least 5 Google logos in this picture, they seem to be more or less randomly placed and the one you pointed out may have just accidentally landed in a good place. Occam's razor. Edit: especially considering that there's probably legal requirements concerning these logos, like there must be one logo every x pixels or something, I'd be very surprised if their placement was left to a fancy machine learning algorithm.
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- userbinator 8y agoUsing machine learning to identify and remove the logos would be an interesting exercise, not too unlike how they already blur license plates and such. (You could do this for any logo, effectively creating a "real-world adblock"...)