Real-time transportation surveillance is an essential part of the intelligent transportation system (ITS). However, images captured under low-light conditions often suffer the poor visibility with types of degradation, such as noise interference and vague edge features, etc. With the development of imaging devices, the quality of the visual surveillance data is continually increasing, like 2K and 4K, which has more strict requirements on the efficiency of image processing. To satisfy the requirements on both enhancement quality and computational speed, this paper proposes a double domain guided real-time low-light image enhancement network (DDNet) for ultra-high-definition (UHD) transportation surveillance. Specifically, we design an encoder-decoder structure as the main architecture of the learning network. In particular, the enhancement processing is divided into two subtasks (i.e., color enhancement and gradient enhancement) via the proposed coarse enhancement module (CEM) and LoG-based gradient enhancement module (GEM), which are embedded in the encoder-decoder structure. It enables the network to enhance the color and edge features simultaneously. Through the decomposition and reconstruction on both color and gradient domains, our DDNet can restore the detailed feature information concealed by the darkness with better visual quality and efficiency. The evaluation experiments on standard and transportation-related datasets demonstrate that our DDNet provides superior enhancement quality and efficiency compared with the state-of-the-art methods. Besides, the object detection and scene segmentation experiments indicate the practical benefits for higher-level image analysis under low-light environments in ITS.
Visuals captured by high-flying aerial drones are increasingly used to assess biodiversity and animal population dynamics around the globe. Yet, challenging acquisition scenarios and tiny animal depictions in airborne imagery, despite ultra-high resolution cameras, have so far been limiting factors for applying computer vision detectors successfully with high confidence. In this paper, we address the problem for the first time by combining deep object detectors with super-resolution techniques and altitude data. In particular, we show that the integration of a holistic attention network based …
DADFNet: Dual Attention and Dual Frequency-Guided Dehazing Network for Video-Empowered Intelligent Transportation
Wuhan University of Technology（武汉理工大学）；Nanyang Technological University（南洋理工大学）；Sony AI（索尼人工智能研究院）；Singapore University of Technology and Design（新加坡科技设计大学）；Guangdong University of Technology（广东工业大学）
University of Cincinnati（辛辛那提大学）；Central Michigan University（中央密歇根大学）；University of Louisiana at Lafayette（路易斯安那大学拉斐特分校）
Action detection and public traffic safety are crucial aspects of a safe community and a better society. Monitoring traffic flows in a smart city using different surveillance cameras can play a significant role in recognizing accidents and alerting first responders. The utilization of action recognition (AR) in computer vision tasks has contributed towards high-precision applications in video surveillance, medical imaging, and digital signal processing. This paper presents an intensive review focusing on action recognition in accident detection and autonomous transportation systems for a smart…
Multi-Modal Graph Neural Network-Inspired Vessel Identification and Tracking for UAV-Based Maritime Surveillance
Wuhan University of Technology（武汉理工大学）；University of Aberdeen（阿伯丁大学）；Guangdong University of Technology（广东工业大学）；The Hong Kong Polytechnic University（香港理工大学）
University of South Carolina（南卡罗来纳大学）；Cleveland State University（克利夫兰州立大学）；Alibaba Group（阿里巴巴集团）；Nanyang Technological University（南洋理工大学）
In recent years, image and video surveillance have made considerable progresses to the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) with the help of deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). As one of the state-of-the-art perception approaches, detecting the interested objects in each frame of video surveillance is widely desired by ITS. Currently, object detection shows remarkable efficiency and reliability in standard scenarios such as daytime scenes with favorable illumination conditions. However, in face of adverse conditions such as the nighttime, object detection loses its accuracy signific…
Attention-Augmented YOLOv8 with Ghost Convolution for Real-Time Vehicle Detection in Intelligent Transportation Systems
School of Energy and Electrical Engineering, Chang’an University, Xi’an, China（能源与电气工程学院，长安大学，西安，中国）；School of Information Engineering, Chang’an University, Xi’an, China（信息工程学院，长安大学，西安，中国）
Social distancing in public spaces has become an essential aspect in helping to reduce the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Exploiting recent advances in machine learning, there have been many studies in the literature implementing social distancing via object detection through the use of surveillance cameras in public spaces. However, to date, there has been no study of social distance measurement on public transport. The public transport setting has some unique challenges, including some low-resolution images and camera locations that can lead to the partial occlusion of passengers, which ma…
Vision Technologies with Applications in Traffic Surveillance Systems: A Holistic Survey
School of Automation, Nanjing University of Science and Technology（南京理工大学自动化学院）；School of Transportation, Southeast University（东南大学交通学院）；Beijing Laboratory of General Aviation Technology, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture（北京建筑大学通用航空技术实验室）
As a major type of transportation equipments, bicycles, including electrical bicycles, are distributed almost everywhere in China. The accidents caused by bicycles have become a serious threat to the public safety. So bicycle detection is one major task of traffic video surveillance systems in China. In this paper, a method based on multi-feature and multi-frame fusion is presented for bicycle detection in low-resolution traffic videos. It first extracts some geometric features of objects from each frame image, then concatenate multiple features into a feature vector and use linear support vec…
Cross-Resolution Semantic Transfer for Robust Text-to-Image Retrieval in Low-Resolution Surveillance
School of Computer Science and Technology, Wuhan University of Science and Technology（武汉科技大学计算机科学与技术学院）；School of Computer Science, National Engineering Research Center for Multimedia Software, Wuhan University（武汉大学计算机学院，国家多媒体软件工程技术研究中心）；Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing and Real-time Industrial System, Wuhan University of Science and Technology（湖北省智能信息处理与实时工业系统重点实验室，武汉科技大学）
Clear Roads, Clear Vision: Advancements in Multi-Weather Restoration for Smart Transportation
Finolex Academy of Management and Technology（Finolex管理与技术学院）；Drone Lab, Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, IIT Mandi（印度理工学院曼迪分校人工智能与机器人中心无人机实验室）；Mehta Family School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, IIT Guwahati（印度理工学院古瓦哈提分校梅塔家族数据科学与人工智能学院）；SPACE42；Centre of Excellence: Artificial Intelligence, School of Computer Science, UPES Dehradun（UPES德拉敦分校计算机科学学院人工智能卓越中心）
In Intelligent Transportation System, real-time systems that monitor and analyze road users become increasingly critical as we march toward the smart city era. Vision-based frameworks for Object Detection, Multiple Object Tracking, and Traffic Near Accident Detection are important applications of Intelligent Transportation System, particularly in video surveillance and etc. Although deep neural networks have recently achieved great success in many computer vision tasks, a uniformed framework for all the three tasks is still challenging where the challenges multiply from demand for real-time pe…
AdvSerial: Physical Adversarial Attacks on Infrastructure-mounted Pedestrian Detectors via Semantic Feature Suppression
School of Transportation Science and Engineering, Beihang University（北京航空航天大学交通科学与工程学院）；State Key Lab of Intelligent Transportation System（智能交通系统国家重点实验室）；Zhongguancun Laboratory（中关村实验室）
dept. Computer Science University of Alberta（阿尔伯塔大学计算机科学系）；Multimedia（多媒体（注：此处可能为笔误或不完整信息，按原文保留））
Feature matching is an important technique to identify a single object in different images. It helps machines to construct recognition of a specific object from multiple perspectives. For years, feature matching has been commonly used in various computer vision applications, like traffic surveillance, self-driving, and other systems. With the arise of Computer-Aided Diagnosis(CAD), the need for feature matching techniques also emerges in the medical imaging field. In this paper, we present a deep learning-based method specially for ultrasound images. It will be examined against existing method…
Interpretable Dynamic Graph Neural Networks for Small Occluded Object Detection and Tracking
Department of Computer Science, American International University-Bangladesh（美国国际大学-孟加拉国计算机科学系）；Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET)（Khulna工程与技术大学工业工程与管理系）；Physics and Biology Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST)（冲绳科学与技术研究生大学物理与生物学单元）
License plate detection and recognition (LPDR) is of growing importance for enabling intelligent transportation and ensuring the security and safety of the cities. However, LPDR faces a big challenge in a practical environment. The license plates can have extremely diverse sizes, fonts and colors, and the plate images are usually of poor quality caused by skewed capturing angles, uneven lighting, occlusion, and blurring. In applications such as surveillance, it often requires fast processing. To enable real-time and accurate license plate recognition, in this work, we propose a set of techniqu…
University of South Florida（南佛罗里达大学）；Nanyang Technological University（南洋理工大学）；Florida Department of Transportation（佛罗里达州交通局）
Rapid and reliable incident detection is critical for reducing crash-related fatalities, injuries, and congestion. However, conventional methods, such as closed-circuit television, dashcam footage, and sensor-based detection, separate detection from verification, suffer from limited flexibility, and require dense infrastructure or high penetration rates, restricting adaptability and scalability to shifting incident hotspots. To overcome these challenges, we developed DARTS, a drone-based, AI-powered real-time traffic incident detection system. DARTS integrates drones' high mobility and aerial …
Object detection is an essential component of many vision systems. For example, pedestrian detection is used in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and advanced video surveillance systems (AVSS). Currently, most detectors use deep convolutional neural networks (e.g., the YOLO -- You Only Look Once -- family), which, however, due to their high computational complexity, are not able to process a very high-resolution video stream in real-time, especially within a limited energy budget. In this paper we present a hardware implementation of the well-known pedestrian detector with HOG (Histogr…
Despite its tremendous value for the diagnosis, treatment monitoring and surveillance of children with cancer, whole body staging with positron emission tomography (PET) is time consuming and associated with considerable radiation exposure. 100x (1% of the standard clinical dosage) ultra-low-dose/ultra-fast whole-body PET reconstruction has the potential for cancer imaging with unprecedented speed and improved safety, but it cannot be achieved by the naive use of machine learning techniques. In this study, we utilize the global similarity between baseline and follow-up PET and magnetic resonan…
University of Waterloo（滑铁卢大学）；DarwinAI Corp.（DarwinAI公司）
Traffic sign recognition is a very important computer vision task for a number of real-world applications such as intelligent transportation surveillance and analysis. While deep neural networks have been demonstrated in recent years to provide state-of-the-art performance traffic sign recognition, a key challenge for enabling the widespread deployment of deep neural networks for embedded traffic sign recognition is the high computational and memory requirements of such networks. As a consequence, there are significant benefits in investigating compact deep neural network architectures for tra…
