Finding sustainable and novel solutions to predict city-wide mobility behaviour is an ever-growing problem given increased urban complexity and growing populations. This paper seeks to address this by describing a traffic frame prediction approach that uses Convolutional LSTMs to create a Temporal Autoencoder with U-Net style skip-connections that marry together recurrent and traditional computer vision techniques to capture spatio-temporal dependencies at different scales without losing topological details of a given city. Utilisation of Cyclical Learning Rates is also presented, improving training efficiency by achieving lower loss scores in fewer epochs than standard approaches.
@article{arxiv.2011.12661,
title = {Temporal Autoencoder with U-Net Style Skip-Connections for Frame Prediction},
author = {Jay Santokhi and Pankaj Daga and Joned Sarwar and Anna Jordan and Emil Hewage},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.12661},
year = {2020}
}