Pedestrian Traffic Prediction using Deep Learning

Pedestrian traffic information offers useful insights when developing or maintaining a business. This research combines image processing and machine learning methods to predict pedestrian traffic flowrate and density for up to two days into the future, based on weather data, calendar data, and speci...

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Main Authors: Riddhi Joshi, Daniel Silver
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Published: LibraryPress@UF 2022-05-01
Series:Proceedings of the International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference
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Online Access:https://journals.flvc.org/FLAIRS/article/view/130731
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description Pedestrian traffic information offers useful insights when developing or maintaining a business. This research combines image processing and machine learning methods to predict pedestrian traffic flowrate and density for up to two days into the future, based on weather data, calendar data, and special events. To obtain the traffic flowrate and density, we first developed a neural network model to predict the number of new people and the total number of people in each sequence of images captured by a Nova Scotia Webcams camera. These counts of people are used to calculate the pedestrian traffic flowrate and density labels for hourly intervals. These labels are then combined with hourly weather data, calendar data, and special event data from the same period to train a recurrent neural network to predict the traffic flowrate and density for up to two days in advance. We try two different approaches, CNN-LSTM and dual input CNN to predict the number of new people and the total number of people from the images and compare how well each approach performs. The results show that the dual image input CNN models are more effective at predicting the number of new people and the total number of people than the CNN - LSTM models. Tested on independent test sets of images using K-fold cross-validation, the MTL CNN model achieved a test accuracy of 72% for the number of new people and 78% accuracy for the total number of people.
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spelling doaj-art-da0e2ce3503d4890b1896e2af05cbc422025-08-20T01:52:18ZengLibraryPress@UFProceedings of the International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference2334-07542334-07622022-05-013510.32473/flairs.v35i.13073166930Pedestrian Traffic Prediction using Deep LearningRiddhi Joshi0Daniel SilverAcadia UniversityPedestrian traffic information offers useful insights when developing or maintaining a business. This research combines image processing and machine learning methods to predict pedestrian traffic flowrate and density for up to two days into the future, based on weather data, calendar data, and special events. To obtain the traffic flowrate and density, we first developed a neural network model to predict the number of new people and the total number of people in each sequence of images captured by a Nova Scotia Webcams camera. These counts of people are used to calculate the pedestrian traffic flowrate and density labels for hourly intervals. These labels are then combined with hourly weather data, calendar data, and special event data from the same period to train a recurrent neural network to predict the traffic flowrate and density for up to two days in advance. We try two different approaches, CNN-LSTM and dual input CNN to predict the number of new people and the total number of people from the images and compare how well each approach performs. The results show that the dual image input CNN models are more effective at predicting the number of new people and the total number of people than the CNN - LSTM models. Tested on independent test sets of images using K-fold cross-validation, the MTL CNN model achieved a test accuracy of 72% for the number of new people and 78% accuracy for the total number of people.https://journals.flvc.org/FLAIRS/article/view/130731deep learningpedestrian traffic predictioncnnlstmtimeseries forecasting
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Pedestrian Traffic Prediction using Deep Learning
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deep learning
pedestrian traffic prediction
cnn
lstm
timeseries forecasting
title Pedestrian Traffic Prediction using Deep Learning
title_full Pedestrian Traffic Prediction using Deep Learning
title_fullStr Pedestrian Traffic Prediction using Deep Learning
title_full_unstemmed Pedestrian Traffic Prediction using Deep Learning
title_short Pedestrian Traffic Prediction using Deep Learning
title_sort pedestrian traffic prediction using deep learning
topic deep learning
pedestrian traffic prediction
cnn
lstm
timeseries forecasting
url https://journals.flvc.org/FLAIRS/article/view/130731
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