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Main Authors: Ji, Junyi, Richardson, Alex, Gloudemans, Derek, Zachár, Gergely, Nice, Matthew, Barbour, William, Sprinkle, Jonathan, Piccoli, Benedetto, Work, Daniel B.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00941
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author Ji, Junyi
Richardson, Alex
Gloudemans, Derek
Zachár, Gergely
Nice, Matthew
Barbour, William
Sprinkle, Jonathan
Piccoli, Benedetto
Work, Daniel B.
author_facet Ji, Junyi
Richardson, Alex
Gloudemans, Derek
Zachár, Gergely
Nice, Matthew
Barbour, William
Sprinkle, Jonathan
Piccoli, Benedetto
Work, Daniel B.
contents Stop-and-go waves are a fundamental phenomenon in freeway traffic flow, contributing to inefficiencies, crashes, and emissions. Recent advancements in high-fidelity sensor technologies have improved the ability to capture detailed traffic dynamics, yet such systems remain scarce and costly. In contrast, conventional traffic sensors are widely deployed but suffer from relatively coarse-grain data resolution, potentially impeding accurate analysis of stop-and-go waves. This article explores whether generative AI models can enhance the resolution of conventional traffic sensor to approximate the quality of high-fidelity observations. We present a novel approach using a conditional diffusion denoising model, designed to reconstruct fine-grained traffic speed field from radar-based conventional sensors via iterative refinement. We introduce a new dataset, I24-WaveX, comprising 132 hours of data from both low and high-fidelity sensor systems, totaling over 2 million vehicle miles traveled. Our approach leverages this dataset to formulate the traffic measurement enhancement problem as a spatio-temporal super-resolution task. We demonstrate that our model can effectively reproduce the patterns of stop-and-go waves, achieving high accuracy in capturing these critical traffic dynamics. Our results show promising advancements in traffic data enhancement, offering a cost-effective way to leverage existing low spatio-temporal resolution sensor networks for improved traffic analysis and management. We also open-sourced our trained model and code to facilitate further research and applications.
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spellingShingle Stop-and-go wave super-resolution reconstruction via iterative refinement
Ji, Junyi
Richardson, Alex
Gloudemans, Derek
Zachár, Gergely
Nice, Matthew
Barbour, William
Sprinkle, Jonathan
Piccoli, Benedetto
Work, Daniel B.
Systems and Control
Stop-and-go waves are a fundamental phenomenon in freeway traffic flow, contributing to inefficiencies, crashes, and emissions. Recent advancements in high-fidelity sensor technologies have improved the ability to capture detailed traffic dynamics, yet such systems remain scarce and costly. In contrast, conventional traffic sensors are widely deployed but suffer from relatively coarse-grain data resolution, potentially impeding accurate analysis of stop-and-go waves. This article explores whether generative AI models can enhance the resolution of conventional traffic sensor to approximate the quality of high-fidelity observations. We present a novel approach using a conditional diffusion denoising model, designed to reconstruct fine-grained traffic speed field from radar-based conventional sensors via iterative refinement. We introduce a new dataset, I24-WaveX, comprising 132 hours of data from both low and high-fidelity sensor systems, totaling over 2 million vehicle miles traveled. Our approach leverages this dataset to formulate the traffic measurement enhancement problem as a spatio-temporal super-resolution task. We demonstrate that our model can effectively reproduce the patterns of stop-and-go waves, achieving high accuracy in capturing these critical traffic dynamics. Our results show promising advancements in traffic data enhancement, offering a cost-effective way to leverage existing low spatio-temporal resolution sensor networks for improved traffic analysis and management. We also open-sourced our trained model and code to facilitate further research and applications.
title Stop-and-go wave super-resolution reconstruction via iterative refinement
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00941