Summary of Deep Learning Enhanced Road Traffic Analysis: Scalable Vehicle Detection and Velocity Estimation Using Planetscope Imagery, by Maciej Adamiak et al.
Deep Learning Enhanced Road Traffic Analysis: Scalable Vehicle Detection and Velocity Estimation Using PlanetScope Imagery
by Maciej Adamiak, Yulia Grinblat, Julian Psotta, Nir Fulman, Himshikhar Mazumdar, Shiyu Tang, Alexander Zipf
First submitted to arxiv on: 4 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper introduces a novel method for detecting and estimating vehicle speeds using PlanetScope SuperDove satellite imagery, offering a scalable solution for global vehicle traffic monitoring. The proposed Keypoint R-CNN model tracks vehicle trajectories across RGB bands, leveraging band timing differences to estimate speed. Validation is performed using drone footage and GPS data covering highways in Germany and Poland, achieving a Mean Average Precision of 0.53 and velocity estimation errors of approximately 3.4 m/s compared to GPS data. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper shows how to use satellite images to figure out how fast cars are going on roads around the world. Right now, we can’t easily count how many cars are driving or how fast they’re going because it’s hard and expensive. But with this new method, we can use satellites to track vehicles and estimate their speed. It’s not perfect yet, but it’s a big step forward for understanding traffic patterns globally. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Cnn * Mean average precision
