Traffic Congestion Prediction using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks: A Color-coding Approach
This work addresses traffic management for urban planners and commuters, but it is incremental as it builds on existing methods like YOLO and DCNNs with a novel preprocessing step.
The paper tackled traffic congestion prediction by proposing a color-coding approach combined with a deep convolutional neural network, achieving a classification accuracy of 98.2% on the UCSD dataset.
The traffic video data has become a critical factor in confining the state of traffic congestion due to the recent advancements in computer vision. This work proposes a unique technique for traffic video classification using a color-coding scheme before training the traffic data in a Deep convolutional neural network. At first, the video data is transformed into an imagery data set; then, the vehicle detection is performed using the You Only Look Once algorithm. A color-coded scheme has been adopted to transform the imagery dataset into a binary image dataset. These binary images are fed to a Deep Convolutional Neural Network. Using the UCSD dataset, we have obtained a classification accuracy of 98.2%.