One traffic framework. Any video source. For all smart city tasks. All that smart traffic needs in the one solution – FLOW. The fastest and smartest way to get the traffic knowledge from any type of video stream that smart cities love.
One traffic framework. Any video source. For all smart city tasks. All that smart traffic needs in the one solution – FLOW. The fastest and smartest way to get the traffic knowledge from any type of video stream that smart cities love.
DataFromSky Team was asked by the Slovak TV to answer the question on how can traffic analysis using AI help to improve the worsening traffic situation in many large cities? Intelligent traffic analysis can help to identify main transportation problems and the causes of frequent bottlenecks or traffic conflicts. Nowadays, transport engineers have a very powerful tool for planning and detecting these shortcomings = artificial intelligence platform DataFromSky. DataFromSky Aerial analysis is, for its high precision and detailed telemetry data about each traffic participant, utilized by many municipalities, transportation departments, traffic engineers, urban and city planners or universities and research institutions worldwide. Our Aerial analysis is often used as an input for various traffic simulation models, or in behavioral studies of drivers for self-driving vehicles.
Are you wondering is DataFromSky Light can analyze videos recorded during the night or dusk or bad light conditions? Have a look at a new video processed by our fully automatic service DataFromSky LIGHT! There is proof that yes, it can!
Automatic traffic data analysis at any time, in any weather conditions!
Do you want to test DataFromSky LIGHT and have your video analyzed? Our DFS Light analysis is free of charge! Follow these 3 basic steps: 1) record the traffic scene using a static camera or simply your phone 2) upload the video to WeTransfer.com and send it to email address analyze@datafromsky.com 3) receive the results together with DataFromSky Light Viewer software and enjoy your data
For more information, contact us at info@datafromsky.com
Need to perform operational analysis of a roundabout based on the real traffic data? DataFromSky supports the calculation of a wide range of operational parameters such as critical-gap time / follow-up time / critical headway etc. Get super accurate traffic data for your research and/or traffic study regardless of the type of intersection using DataFromSky.
Monitoring and analyzing traffic behavior at intersections and roundabouts is an important task in the present traffic research. Trajectory analysis provides higher-level situational awareness by understanding the behavior of every traffic element in the analyzed scene due to the rich information contained in its own motion. DataFromSky is able to extract trajectories and their spatial-temporal statistical characteristics automatically with very high accuracy and high sampling frequency. Accurate traffic data is essential in any modern research in the field of traffic analysis such as:
An unexpected end of the trajectories – DFS Light detected a traffic accident! Take a look at the video below. Have you already tested our new service DFS Light on your own video sample? If not, do not hesitate to do so! Follow these 3 basic steps to get precise traffic data faster than never: 1) record the traffic scene using a camera or simply your phone (to reach the best results, follow the instructions in this video) 2) upload your video to WeTransfer.com and send it to email address analyze@datafromsky.com 3) receive the results together with DataFromSky Light Viewer software and enjoy your data You can upload up to 2 GB free of charge, try it today!
Do you need more precise traffic data? Are you interested in conflict analysis and evaluation of traffic safety? If yes, take a look at our new set of tools for the safety evaluation based on the behavior of road users – click to find out more or contact us for more information.
Object counting and classification, gathering speed & acceleration data, O/D matrix and much more on an area of 55,000 square meters. DataFromSky is the name of the most advanced Aerial AI for an understanding of movements in videos taken by drones, balloons or helicopters.
Take a look at another nice shot from Italy taken from a balloon. The length of the video is 2 hours and 31 minutes. DataFromSky tracked 5 455 objects (4881 cars, 325 medium vehicles, 77 heavy vehicles, 68 buses, 101 motorcycles, 1 bicycle, and 2 pedestrians) with the average speed of 12.24 km/h and the total distance traveled by all participants reaching 1 847 km! Do you need extremely accurate data about traffic flow? Contact us!
We have moved from the Sky to the Ski! With our newly released DataFromSky Light, we are testing the software in unusual conditions and scenarios. Counting how many skiers are on the slopes? Not a problem at all. With our software, one can easily analyze how many people are currently on the slope, how many are waiting by the ski lifts, how many of them just stopped by a ski bar or restaurant or who is skiing outside marked slopes and much more!
You still have a chance to try the software on your own video, free of charge. It could be another atypical record, but keep in mind the recommended parameters for the input video (to achieve the best results with the highest accuracy):
resolution: 1280×720 or more (min. PAL)
bitrate: 5 Mb/s or more
framerate: 25 or more
min. traffic object size: 32px in one dimension
continuous video without cuts
no camera movement
Upload your video to WeTransfer and send it to analyze@datafromsky.com – if you need more information, follow the instructions in this post.
In many cities, there are places where many road users pass or stay in a complicated network of routes and get into a risky interaction. It can be difficult to get an overview of the whole situation and define the “hot spots” where the traffic behavior is simply non-standard. Our tool Data From Sky is in most cases be able to uncover, sort and analyze all movements of vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians in a larger area and evaluate critical parts of a road network, that might be risky for any traffic participant. This kind of overview and analysis can give traffic and urban planners a very good starting point for designing any adjustments.
The figure below shows an area in the city of Aarhus in Denmark and displays the flow of cyclists (pink trajectories) and pedestrians (green trajectories) in the 2-hour period. The main goal of the analysis is to provide the Aarhus Municipality with an overview of cyclists and pedestrian movement in the analyzed area and identify some patterns in their traffic behavior.
After having formed a detailed overview of all the different flows and routes, author of this study (Birger Villadsen, Traffic Specialist at COWI) has focused on those areas, where cyclists’ and pedestrians’ behavior gets into a collision. The detailed DataFromSky Analysis helped to analyze the problematic spots and draw up proposals for changes, that can help to simplify the traffic flow. Aarhus Municipality will evaluate the list of proposals and test them on the site by making temporary changes and observing whether they have the intended effect before the changes are implemented permanently.
Have you already tried our new service DataFromSky Light – fully automatic analysis of traffic from static cameras? Not yet? Try it now for free! Get the precise traffic data fast and reliable just in 3 steps: 1) record the traffic using a camera or simply your phone (to reach the best results, follow the instructions in this video) 2) upload your video to WeTransfer.com and send it to analyze@datafromsky.com 3) receive your results together with DataFromSky Light software and enjoy your data (various features for user: counts, OD-matrix, visualizations, many export functions, classification of objects, trajectories and much more)!
Take a look at a great example of the DFS Light analysis – our software easily handles and can analyze such traffic conditions prevailing e.g. in India. Could you count all of the motorbikes? We can, in a while!
DataFromSky team and everyone at RCE systems would like to wish to all of our partners a wonderful holiday season and prosperous and joyful New Year. Thank you for your continuing support in 2018 and we are looking forward to continued success in 2019!
Christmas is just around the corner and we have prepared a special gift for you. An alpha version of our new service DataFromSky Light is now available for all traffic analysis enthusiasts! We have moved closer to the ground to make the awesome features of the DataFromSky closer to you as well. Fully automatic traffic data extraction from various “ground” video sources can be now smoothly and quickly delivered to you using the DataFromSky Light service. Rethink the traffic studies with our free video analytic tools, rethink the way you explore traffic!
The DataFromSky Light is an online service that processes traffic-related video data captured by smartphones, camcorders or highway surveillance cameras. It detects, classifies and tracks traffic objects in any video source. The following traffic object classes are supported:
pedestrian
bicycle
motorcycle
car
heavy vehicle
Video and result data exchange is performed via WeTransfer sharing service. How to use the DataFromSky Light service can be seen in the following video:
The results of the traffic analysis are provided in our TLGX format and can be viewed using a new lightweight license-free version of the DataFromSky Viewer called DataFromSky Viewer Light. The DataFromSky Viewer Light can visualize the spatial-temporal data that can be interactively examined in the whole analyzed time interval. The DataFromSky Viewer Light has the most of the licensed DataFromSky Viewer version functionality including:
traffic objects counting
directional/selective gate counting
O/D matrix counting
capacity estimation
headway statistics computation
gap time computation
time to follow computation
target time computation
trajectories visualization
heat-map visualization
export of the trajectories in various formats (.csv, .trj, .xlsx)
snapshot/video render export
The DataFromSky Light can process data from any video input such as static/handheld consumer camera video recording or a video capture from an existing video infrastructure (i.e. surveillance cameras). For the best traffic analysis results we recommend the following input video parameters:
resolution: 1280×720 or more (min. PAL)
bitrate: 5 Mb/s or more
framerate: 25 or more
min. traffic object size: 32px in one dimension
continuous video without cuts
no camera movement
The service can provide accurate results even beyond these parameters. We also recommend minimizing occlusions in the view on the scene in order to maximize the traffic analysis accuracy. For the post process traffic analysis in the DataFromSky Viewer Light software, it is useful for the input video to be as stable as possible with the area of the interest kept in the view throughout the whole video capture process to prevent a misleading gate counting since the video is not georegistered.
Picture 1: Examples of scene views suitable for the DataFromSky Light.
Picture 2: Not suitable scene views for the DataFromSky Light service (commented from the top left to bottom right – rotated; intended for DataFromSky Aerial; a lot of partial occlusions; big moving objects causing enormous occlusions)
There is no registration needed in order to use the DataFromSky Light. Free usage of the service is limited to 5 videos per day per one e-mail address. The maximum length of 2 hours per video can be analyzed for free as well. For the unlimited DataFromSky Light access please contact info@datafromsky.com. Try and see for free.
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