Google launched Street View, utilizing customized camera vehicles to capture thousands of miles of continuous, real-world 360-degree panoramic imagery. This created an unprecedented geospatial visual dataset, forcing computer vision researchers to develop automated object detection pipelines capable of reading street signs and blurring human faces at scale.
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