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Physics and Society · Physics 2014-03-05 Jameson L. Toole , Serdar Colak , Fahad Alhasoun , Alexandre Evsukoff , Marta C. Gonzalez

Modern smartphones have all the sensing capabilities required for accurate and robust navigation and tracking. In specific environments some data streams may be absent, less reliable, or flat out wrong. In particular, the GNSS signal can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Santiago Cortés Reina , Yuxin Hou , Juho Kannala , Arno Solin

Accurately maintaining digital street maps is labor-intensive. To address this challenge, much work has studied automatically processing geospatial data sources such as GPS trajectories and satellite images to reduce the cost of maintaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Favyen Bastani , Songtao He , Satvat Jagwani , Mohammad Alizadeh , Hari Balakrishnan , Sanjay Chawla , Sam Madden , Mohammad Amin Sadeghi

Automated road network extraction from remote sensing imagery remains a significant challenge despite its importance in a broad array of applications. To this end, we explore road network extraction at scale with inference of semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Adam Van Etten

Real-world traffic involves diverse road users, ranging from pedestrians to heavy trucks, necessitating effective road user classification for various applications within Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). Traditional approaches often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Lennart Köpper , Thomas Wieland

In this paper, we combine the most complete record of daily mobility, based on large-scale mobile phone data, with detailed Geographic Information System (GIS) data, uncovering previously hidden patterns in urban road usage. We find that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-12-24 Pu Wang , Timothy Hunter , Alexandre M. Bayen , Katja Schechtner , Marta C. González

Road conditions affect both machine and human powered modes of transportation. In the case of human powered transportation, poor road conditions increase the work for the individual to travel. Previous estimates for these parameters have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Nitish Nag , Vaibhav Pandey , Aishwarya Manjunath , Avinash Vaka , Ramesh Jain

As the number of vehicles continues to grow, parking spaces are at a premium in city streets. Additionally, due to the lack of knowledge about street parking spaces, heuristic circling the blocks not only costs drivers' time and fuel, but…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-03-02 Ruizhi Liao , Cristian Roman , Peter Ball , Shumao Ou , Liping Chen

Slippery road conditions pose significant challenges for autonomous driving. Beyond predicting road grip, it is crucial to estimate its uncertainty reliably to ensure safe vehicle control. In this work, we benchmark several uncertainty…

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Street-view imagery provides us with novel experiences to explore different places remotely. Carefully calibrated street-view images (e.g. Google Street View) can be used for different downstream tasks, e.g. navigation, map features…

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A key challenge in monitoring and managing the structural health of bridges is the high-cost associated with specialized sensor networks. In the past decade, researchers predicted that cheap, ubiquitous mobile sensors would revolutionize…

In advanced driver assistant systems and autonomous driving, it is crucial to estimate distances between an ego vehicle and target vehicles. Existing inter-vehicle distance estimation methods assume that the ego and target vehicles drive on…

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Real-time parking occupancy information is valuable for guiding drivers' searching for parking spaces. Recently many parking detection systems using range-based on-vehicle sensors are invented, but they disregard the practical difficulty of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Qi Luo , Romesh Saigal , Robert Hampshire , Xinyi Wu

Autonomous vehicles are growing rapidly, in well-developed nations like America, Europe, and China. Tech giants like Google, Tesla, Audi, BMW, and Mercedes are building highly efficient self-driving vehicles. However, the technology is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Sarita Gautam , Anuj Kumar

This paper addresses the task of road safety assessment. An emerging approach for conducting such assessments in the United States is through the US Road Assessment Program (usRAP), which rates roads from highest risk (1 star) to lowest (5…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Weilian Song , Scott Workman , Armin Hadzic , Xu Zhang , Eric Green , Mei Chen , Reginald Souleyrette , Nathan Jacobs

Infrastructure sensing systems in combination with Infrastructure-to-Vehicle communication can be used to enhance sensor data obtained from the perspective of a vehicle, only. This paper presents a system consisting of a radar sensor…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-05 Sören Kohnert , Julian Stähler , Reinhard Stolle , Florian Geissler

The proliferation of low-cost sensors in smartphones has facilitated numerous applications; however, large-scale deployments often encounter performance issues. Sensing heterogeneity, which refers to varying data quality due to factors such…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-07-08 Yawen Zhang , Qingkai Kong , Tao Ruan , Qin Lv , Richard Allen

Mobility in urban and interurban areas, mainly by cars, is a day-to-day activity of many people. However, some of its main drawbacks are traffic jams and accidents. Newly made vehicles have pre-installed driving evaluation systems, which…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Oscar Romero , Aika Silveira Miura , Lorena Parra , Jaime Lloret

The sensing and monitoring of the urban road network contribute to the efficient operation of the urban transportation system and the functionality of urban systems. However, traditional sensing methods, such as inductive loop sensors,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-08-23 Shuocheng Guo , Xinwu Qian

Roads are an essential mode of transportation, and maintaining them is critical to economic growth and citizen well-being. With the continued advancement of AI, road surface inspection based on camera images has recently been extensively…

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