Traffic Analytics With Low-Frame-Rate Videos
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the possibility of monitoring highway traffic based on videos whose frame rate is too low to accurately estimate motion features. The goal of the proposed method is to recognize traffic conditions instead of measuring them, as is usually the case. The main advantage of our approach comes from its ability to process low-frame-rate videos for which motion features cannot be estimated. Our method takes advantage of the highly redundant nature of traffic scenes that are pictured from a top-down perspective showing vehicles on a predominant asphalted road surrounded by background objects. Due to the limited variety of objects pictured in traffic scenes, our method gets to learn features that are specific to such images. With these features, our method is able to segment traffic images, classify traffic scenes, and estimate traffic density without requiring motion features. Different convolutional neural network models are proposed to segment traffic images in three different classes (Road, Car, and Background), classify traffic images into different categories (Empty, Fluid, Heavy, and Jam), and predict traffic density. We also propose a procedure to perform transfer learning of any of these models to new traffic scenes.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it