Enhancing Vehicle Sensing for Traffic Safety and Mobility Performance Improvements Using Roadside LiDAR Sensor Data
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2024-06-30
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Edition:Final Research Report
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Abstract:Recent technological advancements in computer vision algorithms and data acquisition devices have greatly facilitated research activities towards enhancing traffic sensing for traffic safety performance improvements. Significant research efforts have been devoted to developing and deploying more effective technologies to detect, sense, and monitor traffic dynamics and rapidly identify crashes in in Rural, Isolated, Tribal, or Indigenous (RITI) communities. As a new modality for 3D scene perception, Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data have gained increasing popularity for traffic perception, due to its advantages over conventional RGB data, such as being insensitive to varying lighting conditions. In the past decade, researchers and professionals have extensively adopted LiDAR data to promote traffic perception for transportation research and applications. Nevertheless, a series of challenges and research gaps are yet to be fully addressed in LiDAR-based transportation research, such as the disturbance of adverse weather conditions, lack of roadside LiDAR data for deep learning analysis, and roadside LiDAR-based vehicle trajectory prediction. In this technical report, we focus on addressing these research gaps and proposing a series of methodologies to optimize deep learning-based feature recognition for roadside LiDAR-based traffic object recognition tasks. The proposed methodologies will help transportation agencies monitor traffic flow, identify crashes, and develop timely countermeasures with improved accuracy, efficiency, and robustness, and thus enhance traffic safety in RITI communities in the States of Alaska, Washington, Idaho, and Hawaii.
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