Connect a drone, a busy intersection in any city and an algorithm based on neural networks and you can achieve surprising results.
This is exactly what DataFromSky, a specialist company, is responsible for real-time video analysis taken by drones which is able to identify vehicles, speeds and trajectories.
Absolute traffic control
The company, with its official headquarters in the Czech Republic, has been working on this type of analysis since 2013 and shows how a drone positioned vertically at any traffic junction can offer very interesting information. for those who make decisions about transport in cities.
In the demonstration videos, you can see how their algorithms based on neural networks are able to determine What type of vehicle drives on these roads? (other than assigning a unique identifier), its speed or its trajectory.
Those responsible for the system themselves explain how, in fact, the drone is not specifically mandatory, but its versatility allows it not to depend on fixed cameras, although of course there are limitations on autonomy that these drones can provide that video of traffic activities on the streets.
Applications are clear from the point of view of accounting for traffic or its flow, speed (A potential alternative to speed cameras?) and accelerating or studying trajectories that allow new decisions to be made to improve traffic flow.
Not only that: the videos on the DataFromSky channel on Vimeo show how the same system can be used for tracking large numbers of people. This surprising (and disturbing) alternative shows, for example, how the system recognizes and identifies (not by first and last name, but by an individual identifier) each person.
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