Vehicles - Detection Demo

Drones or Unnamed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have a broad range of applications ranging from remote sensing to deliveries. They have also become so affordable that they are on a course to transform domains where infrastructure inspection and monitoring in crucial, including of course road traffic monitoring. The great advantage of UAVs in road traffic monitoring is that they can capture footage over large areas from which novel information can be extracted. Unlike localize information from loop detectors and static cameras, processed UAV footage can reveal mobility and speed patterns over distances and time periods long enough that the underlying speed-flow-density relationship of lines, road segments and regions can be revealed. More specifically, this speed-flow-density information can be used to extract the fundamental diagram (i.e., the relationship between the traffic flux and the traffic density (vehicles per hour to vehicles per kilometres).