In the United States, highway-railroad grade crossings are easily congested, which not only causes significant traffic delays to travelers but also brings potential threats to the first responders for emergencies. Unfortunately, very limited research efforts have been dedicated to developing practical systems that can assess traffic conditions at overcrowded grade crossings. The main challenge in evaluating the congestion conditions at the crossings is the different instance classes (i.e., vehicle, train, and pedestrian) that need to be accurately detected, especially when densely packaged. In this study, a novel convolutional neural network (CNN) named dense traffic detection net (DTDNet) is developed. DTDNet proposes to integrate the Transformer Attention (TA) module for better modeling of global context information and the learning-to-match detection head for optimizing object detection and localization using a likelihood probability fashion. To train and test DTDNet, a unique grade crossing traffic image dataset including congested and normal traffic during both daytime and nighttime is established. Experimental results on the dataset show that the proposed DTDNet achieves the maximum mean average precision (mAP) value, 0.832, outperforming the other state-of-the-art (SOTA) models. Field test results with low mean average error (MAE), mean relative error (MRE), and root mean squared error (RMSE) which are 2.200, 1.890, and 0.280, respectively suggest the proposed model has a satisfying and robust performance in the field application under different environments.”.


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    Title :

    Dense Traffic Detection at Highway-Railroad Grade Crossings


    Contributors:
    Guo, Feng (author) / Jiang, Zhuocheng (author) / Wang, Yi (author) / Chen, Chen (author) / Qian, Yu (author)


    Publication date :

    2022-09-01


    Size :

    4955120 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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