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Congestion Estimation Using Traffic Cameras

Snyder, Corey; Gonzales, Daniel A.; Do, Minh; Ma, Tian J.

Traffic cameras are becoming a popular form of surveillance in traffic bodies across the country. With recent advances in computer vision and deep learning, there is a great opportunity to leverage these images to provide real-time traffic estimates and other public services. In this report, we detail some of the challenges, current interests of the research community, and our early efforts in using traffic cameras for vehicle detection and traffic estimation. We also discuss a benchmark traffic dataset that we are assembling and plan to release to the research community to motivate further work in this area.