Summary of Pedestrian Volume Prediction Using a Diffusion Convolutional Gated Recurrent Unit Model, by Yiwei Dong et al.
Pedestrian Volume Prediction Using a Diffusion Convolutional Gated Recurrent Unit Model
by Yiwei Dong, Tingjin Chu, Lele Zhang, Hadi Ghaderi, Hanfang Yang
First submitted to arxiv on: 5 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Applications (stat.AP)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel deep learning-based approach for predicting pedestrian flow is presented in this study. Building upon the Diffusion Convolutional Grated Recurrent Unit (DCGRU) model, the authors introduce a dynamic time warping (DTW) extension, dubbed DCGRU-DTW. This enhanced model leverages real-world data from Melbourne’s automatic pedestrian counting system to capture both spatial and temporal dependencies in pedestrian flow. Through extensive numerical experiments, the proposed DCGRU-DTW model is shown to outperform classic vector autoregressive models and the original DCGRU across multiple accuracy metrics. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps create safer roads by improving how we predict where people will walk. It’s like having a superpower that can help cities design better sidewalks, crosswalks, and traffic lights. The authors used real data from Melbourne to train their model, which is really good at predicting what will happen in the future based on what happened before. They even compared it to other popular models and showed that their new approach works better. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Autoregressive » Deep learning » Diffusion
