Traffic volume estimation from traffic camera imagery: Toward real-time traffic data streams

Released: 2022-09-06

This paper presents a computer vision-based system to periodically extract vehicle counts from Canadian traffic camera imagery. The processing system pulls static images at high-frequency intervals from the traffic camera Application Programming Interfaces and generates real-time counts of the detected vehicles (car, bus, motorcycle, etc.). Different methods of estimating traffic volumes from the counts were implemented and assessed.

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The paper "Traffic volume estimation from traffic camera imagery: Toward real-time traffic data streams," part of the publication Reports on Special Business Projects (Catalogue number18-001-X), is now available.

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