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Recent works on the application of Physics-Informed Neural Networks to traffic density estimation have shown to be promising for future developments due to their robustness to model errors and noisy data. In this paper, we introduce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Dennis Wilkman , Kateryna Morozovska , Karl Henrik Johansson , Matthieu Barreau

The main aim of this work is the development of a vision-based road detection system fast enough to cope with the difficult real-time constraints imposed by moving vehicle applications. The hardware platform, a special-purpose massively…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-09-25 A. Broggi , S. Berte

Traffic congestion is becoming a challenge in the rapidly growing urban cities, resulting in increasing delays and inefficiencies within urban transportation systems. To address this issue a comprehensive methodology is designed to optimize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 H Mhatre , M Vyas , A Mittal

This paper demonstrates accurate traffic modeling and forecast using stochastic cell-automata (CA) and distributed fiber-optic sensing (DFOS). Traffic congestion is a dominant issue in highways. To reduce congestion, real-time traffic…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2025-11-24 Yoshiyuki Yajima , Takahiro Kumura

The continuous expansion of the urban traffic sensing infrastructure has led to a surge in the volume of widely available road related data. Consequently, increasing effort is being dedicated to the creation of intelligent transportation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Alina Patelli , Victoria Lush , Aniko Ekart , Elisabeth Ilie-Zudor

Manual traffic surveillance can be a daunting task as Traffic Management Centers operate a myriad of cameras installed over a network. Injecting some level of automation could help lighten the workload of human operators performing manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Vishal Mandal , Abdul Rashid Mussah , Peng Jin , Yaw Adu-Gyamfi

Understanding traffic density from large-scale web camera (webcam) videos is a challenging problem because such videos have low spatial and temporal resolution, high occlusion and large perspective. To deeply understand traffic density, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Shanghang Zhang , Guanhang Wu , João P. Costeira , José M. F. Moura

Detecting traversable road areas ahead a moving vehicle is a key process for modern autonomous driving systems. A common approach to road detection consists of exploiting color features to classify pixels as road or background. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-19 Jose M. Alvarez , Theo Gevers , Antonio M. Lopez

The simulation of traffic flow on networks requires knowledge on the behavior across traffic intersections. For macroscopic models based on hyperbolic conservation laws there exist nowadays many ad-hoc models describing this behavior. Based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Michael Herty , Niklas Kolbe

This paper proposes a scalable and interpretable framework for lane-wise highway traffic anomaly detection, leveraging multi-modal time series data extracted from surveillance cameras. Unlike traditional sensor-dependent methods, our…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-06 Mei Qiu , William Lorenz Reindl , Yaobin Chen , Stanley Chien , Shu Hu

We propose an efficient method for reconstructing traffic density with low penetration rate of probe vehicles. Specifically, we rely on measuring only the initial and final positions of a small number of cars which are generated using…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Nail Baloul , Amaury Hayat , Thibault Liard , Pierre Lissy

The main motivation of this work is to assess the validity of a LWR traffic flow model to model measurements obtained from trajectory data, and propose extensions of this model to improve it. A formulation for a discrete dynamical system is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-06 Mike Pereira , Pinar Boyraz Baykas , Balázs Kulcsár , Annika Lang

This work presents the development of a lane detection system aimed at assisting the driving of conventional and autonomous vehicles. The system was implemented using traditional computer vision techniques, focusing on robustness and…

We investigate a probabilistic cellular automaton model which has been introduced recently. This model describes single-lane traffic flow on a ring and generalizes the asymmetric exclusion process models. We study the equilibrium properties…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 M. Schreckenberg , A. Schadschneider , K. Nagel , N. Ito

Predicting travel times of vehicles in urban settings is a useful and tangible quantity of interest in the context of intelligent transportation systems. We address the problem of travel time prediction in arterial roads using data sampled…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Avinash Achar , Venkatesh Sarangan , R Rohith , Anand Sivasubramaniam

Mobile sensing enabled by GPS or smart phones has become an increasingly important source of traffic data. For sufficient coverage of the traffic stream, it is important to maintain a reasonable penetration rate of probe vehicles. From the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-29 Benedetto Piccoli , Ke Han , Terry L. Friesz , Tao Yao , Junqing Tang

Real-time estimation of vehicle locations and speeds is crucial for developing many beneficial transportation applications in traffic management and control, e.g., adaptive signal control. Recent advances in communication technologies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Jiachen Ye , Dingyu Wang , Shaocheng Jia , Xin Pei , Zi Yang , Yi Zhang , S. C. Wong

Real-time traffic volume inference is key to an intelligent city. It is a challenging task because accurate traffic volumes on the roads can only be measured at certain locations where sensors are installed. Moreover, the traffic evolves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Xianfeng Tang , Boqing Gong , Yanwei Yu , Huaxiu Yao , Yandong Li , Haiyong Xie , Xiaoyu Wang

We propose a novel camera-based DNN method for 3D lane detection with uncertainty estimation. Our method is based on a semi-local, BEV, tile representation that breaks down lanes into simple lane segments. It combines learning a parametric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Netalee Efrat , Max Bluvstein , Noa Garnett , Dan Levi , Shaul Oron , Bat El Shlomo

Movement specific vehicle classification and counting at traffic intersections is a crucial component for various traffic management activities. In this context, with recent advancements in computer-vision based techniques, cameras have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Udita Jana , Jyoti Prakash Das Karmakar , Pranamesh Chakraborty , Tingting Huang , Dave Ness , Duane Ritcher , Anuj Sharma