Summary of Fine-grained Urban Flow Inference with Multi-scale Representation Learning, by Shilu Yuan et al.
Fine-Grained Urban Flow Inference with Multi-scale Representation Learning
by Shilu Yuan, Dongfeng Li, Wei Liu, Xinxin Zhang, Meng Chen, Junjie Zhang, Yongshun Gong
First submitted to arxiv on: 14 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary In this research paper, scientists propose a new method for predicting traffic flow in cities called UrbanMSR. The goal is to improve traffic efficiency and safety by learning from coarse-grained data about traffic patterns. Most existing methods focus on static geographic information at different scales within the city, but neglect the dynamic interactions between these regions. To address this limitation, UrbanMSR uses self-supervised contrastive learning to capture multi-scale representations of neighborhood-level and city-level geographic information across time and space. The model fuses these representations to improve fine-grained accuracy. Experimental results on three real-world datasets show that UrbanMSR outperforms state-of-the-art methods. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary UrbanMSR is a new way to predict traffic flow in cities. It takes coarse-grained data about traffic patterns and uses it to learn more detailed information about what’s happening on the roads. This helps improve traffic efficiency and safety. Most other methods only look at static information, like maps of the city, but they don’t consider how different areas interact with each other over time. UrbanMSR is different because it uses a special kind of learning that takes these interactions into account. It looks at both big-picture views of the city and smaller-scale views of neighborhoods to get a better understanding of what’s happening on the roads. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Self supervised
