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DataFromSky AI is finally launched!

Our new DataFromSky AI is finally launched! Globally trusted cloud-based platform for fully automated traffic analysis from videos using AI and machine learning methods with 100% guarantee of results (optionally).It is capable of measuring a wide range of advanced traffic parameters thanks to the trajectory-based approach: analyzing current speed acceleration/decelerationm, classification up to 16 categories, safety analysis (measuring Time to Collision, Heavy Breaking or risky situations), configurable gate counting including O/D matrix, travel and occupancy times, headways, Gap time & Time to follow analysis, capacity, estimations, various export functions and statistics and many more features… Click this link, upload a video taken by drone or standard camera and analyze your extracted traffic data or try one of our outputs available here.

To help you started we give you 3 credits to provide you up to three hours of video analysis. Follow us on LinkedIn and get 3 credits for LIKE and another 4 credits for SHARING this post. It means up to 7 hours of video analysis completely free of charges!

More about DataFromSky? – Read our article about Philosophy behind.

How to record the video by drone? – Find tips in our manual.

How to record the video by camera? – Find tips in our manual.

Wednesday August 21st, 2019 in News

DataFromSky Viewer – new version with many amazing features!

We are happy to announce a release of a new version of DataFromSky Viewer and we have one breaking news for you: DFS Viewer LIGHT and DFS Viewer AERIAL were merged into ONE common software application DataFromSky Viewer. From now on, you do not have to install two different software, one for videos analyzed by LIGHT platform (light.datafromsky.com) and the other one analyzed by Aerial platform. The aggregated Viewer SW will display the features according to the log you open in it – what does it mean? If you have video processed by DFS Light and open the tlgx file in Viewer, the SW will show you the features for the LIGHT Viewer, and on the other hand, if you have a drone video analyzed by DFS Aerial and open the tlgx file in this aggregated Viewer, the SW will automatically enable you all the advanced features available for Aerial analysis. Be smart and use one application for all results!

New features of DataFromSky Viewer:

* one common version for both services AERIAL & LIGHT (automatic SW configuration according to opened file)
* GRID maps
* new type of filter “Traffic Region” – measuring time of staying, number of vehicles within the defined zone (region)
* supported new speed units: kilometers per hour [km/h], miles per hour [mi/h] or feet per second
* significantly speed up video playback even for 4k video
* new option to export the visualization video in .mp4
* new option to specify export resolution (“Original”, “2160p”, “1080p” and “720p”)
* option to lock project tlgx file (only in registrated, licensed version)

You don’t have an account on DataFromSky Web Platform yet? Go to light.datafromsky.com, create an Account for free and test the automatic video analysis on your own videos! You will receive some free Credits as a welcome gift. Download new version of DataFromSky Viewer directly at this link or go to the Task manager on your User Account. Tricks and tips on how to use the SW are “hidden” in our Help section.

Thursday August 1st, 2019 in News

DFS and Parking Detection on URBIS Smart City Fair 2019

The whole team of RCE systems would like to thank all visitors of our stand on URBIS: Smart City Fair 2019, held in 5. and 6. 6. 2019 in Brno Fair Trade Centre.

We believe that solutions sparked the interest in technologies and services for cities of tomorrow. We are glad that we had a chance to introduce our solutions DataFromSky and Parking Detection to the public.

We have presented our newly released platform DataFromSky LIGHT, introducing the fully automated service of traffic from various ground video sources such as traffic surveillance cameras, action cameras, camcorders or even smartphone, and also DataFromSky AERIAL = advanced technology for traffic analysis of aerial videos recorded by a drone or balloons. Our public presentation about drones, AI and traffic monitoring impressed the visitors as well.

Parking Detection was represented by a small interactive model, on which every visitor had a chance to find out how the system works and its key benefits = accuracy, cost-efficiency and openness for integration into other SmartCity platforms.

Thanks to our partner OMS Lightning we had a chance to show, how can ParkingDetection be integrated and contribute to a complex city IoT platform such as CitySys.

Have a look at few pics from the event below.

Tuesday June 11th, 2019 in News

Release of DataFromSky LIGHT platform!

Become a traffic expert and send you data for DFS Light analysis right now and you will get some Free Credits to the start!

The DataFromSky Light is a fully automatic online service platform that detects, classifies and tracks all traffic objects in any video source using artificial intelligence, deep learning methods, and the most advanced image processing algorithms trained on millions of traffic situations. We transformed our experience from aerial videos and created the ultimate solution for video traffic analysis for low altitude cameras which is capable of learning from its mistakes. Try and see for free!

Mining the traffic data was never easier:

1) visit our newly released web platform light.datafromsky.com and send your first video for automated analysis or create a User Account via an online sign-up form
2) upload your video, take a short break and wait for the results
3) you will receive an email with a link to download the DFS Light analysis or you can download it directly from your User account
4) analyze your data with our super tool DataFromSky Viewer Light… visit our Help section that will guide you through on how to use the Viewer and its functions

Why should you use DFS LIGHT? Countless benefits…

comprehensive analysis – counting, OD-matrix, turn counts, statistics, trajectories, exports and visualizations and much more just in a few clicks

supports up to 16 object classes – from car, truck, van up to tuk-tuk

valuable video data – analyze every single millisecond of your video

supports up to 8k videos – you won’t miss anything, detection of even the tiniest objects

data available in offline mode – download the results and SW to your PC and you will never lose the data

no need of expensive hardware – use any type of camera

Not yet convinced?
Try it on your own video, it is easy and you get a short sample analysis for free from each of your video!

DataFromSKy Light platform is a global platform, however, for the use of the service in Nordic countries or Benelux, please contact our DataFromSky Partners:

COWI

COWI is a leading consulting group with a 360° approach. The Danish company has a long-proven record of success, serving customers from the Nordic countries and the whole world in the field of civil engineering, including traffic analysis. DataFromSky cooperates with COWI on Nordic markets, including Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland. For more info about DataFromSKy LIGHT there, contact Mr. Jonas Olesen: jool@cowi.com.

ROELOFS

Roelofs Groep is a company with over 50-year history in the Dutch infrastructure. They focus on sustainable innovation of infrastructure, belonging into leading infrastructure specialist in the Netherlands. They are involved in various projects in the fields of energy & environment, resources, ecology, mobility, sewage and infrastructure engineering. DataFromSky cooperates with Roelofs in the region of BENELUX – Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg. For more info about DataFromSky LIGHT there, contact Mr. T. Adema: t.adema@roelofsgroep.nl.

DataFromSKy LIGHT ≠ DataFromSky Aerial! Do you need super accurate traffic data of an aerial video? Speed measurement [km/h], acceleration data, heatmaps, time gaps, safety analysis are parameters of your interest? These values are not reachable with DataFromSky Light. Contact us for more information!

Monday June 3rd, 2019 in News

Visit our stand on URBIS Smart City Fair

URBIS Smart City Fair 2019 is just around the corner and, of course, DataFromSky and ParkingDetection are taking part as well! Mark the dates 5th and 6th of June into your diary, as we are looking forward to seeing you at the stand no. 20 in Brno Trade Fair! Do not miss also our public presentation about drones, AI and traffic monitoring on Digital stage, on Wednesday 5.6.2019 at 1:15 pm!

You will have a chance to see and test the DataFromSky Light analysis – we will show you real examples and use cases. Moreover, we will have our drone and DataFromSky traffic balloon on the stand!

The URBIS Smart City Fair is a culmination of the exceptional innovative potential that exists in Brno and a place where leaders in Innovation, suppliers of smart solutions for Municipal Authorities, start-ups, towns and municipalities and citizens meet under one roof. Don’t miss this event!

Wednesday May 29th, 2019 in News

NVIDIA wrote article about DataFromSky!

We are happy to share the excitement from the article which NVIDIA, well-known GPU’s provider and AI focused tech company, published about DataFromSky – our AI in the Sky!

As the article further explains, we train our deep neural networks using thousands of hours of video footage from around the globe, shot in various weather conditions. The training takes place on NVIDIA GPUs using Caffe and TensorFlow. These specialized neural networks can then recognize objects of interest and continually track them in video footage. The data captured via this AI process is used in numerous research projects, enabling deeper analysis of object interaction and new behavioral models of drivers in specific traffic situations. Ultimately, this kind of data will also be crucial for the development of autonomous vehicles!

We are also carrying out extensive optimizations of the whole architecture, moving to NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier, in order to be able to analyze data in real time. Our current work focus is also on the development of an online monitoring drone, which will be able to evaluate image data in real-time, directly during its flight. This type of drone can be used, for example, as a substitute for a police helicopter, or can operate as a mobile surveillance system for personal and property protection.

Read the full article on NVIDIA blog at this link.

We are also a member of the NVIDIA Inception program – virtual accelerator program led by NVIDIA nurtures dedicated and exceptional technological companies, who are revolutionizing industries with advances in AI and data science and help them in all stages of product development, prototyping, and deployment.

Tuesday May 14th, 2019 in News

Improving the traffic conditions in Brussel with DataFromSky

Our partner Roelofs has made an analysis with DataFromSky for a big junction in the city center of Brussel, Belgium. The analysis covers the junction between the Leopold II Lane and Sainctelette – one of the biggest and most complex junctions in Brussel. In this case, the video is made by a tethered drone to get a longer survey. Thanks to DataFromSky, it is possible to create a detailed traffic study which was handled to the government of Brussel and its Mobility department, providing the correct data for creating solutions that can improve the traffic flow and safety of this junction.

DataFromSky Aerial analysis is providing complete and detailed telemetry data about each traffic participant:

complete object trajectories (time, position, speed, acceleration in coordinate system UTM or WGS84) – visualization in program or various exports

classification of all objects into 7 main categories (including bicycles and pedestrians)

vehicle counts via configurable counting gates

detailed OD matrix and turning movements count in defined directions

speed and acceleration anywhere in the scene, heatmaps

lane assignment

measurement of critical headway (gap) and follow-up headway

safety analysis (Time to collision measurement, PET, Heavy breaking etc.)

and much more!

Do you want to use DataFromSky project in your project? Contact us with your query!

Tuesday May 7th, 2019 in News

DataFromSky Aerial analysis in the Netherlands

ROELOFS, an exclusive partner of DataFromSky in the Netherlands, carried out comprehensive traffic research of a traffic node in the province of Gelderland. The data collected with a drone and analyzed by DataFromSky Aerial platform will be used as the main source for a study for planned major maintenance in 2021.

The drone was deployed at the roundabout of the N318 Misterweg in Winterswijk. When preparing for the major maintenance of this road, it is also being examined whether road safety can be improved. Besides other things, DataFromSky offers many great features for analysis of traffic behavior and road safety, including analysis of risky situations or near collisions, calculation of Time to Collision, Heavy Breaking and analysis of many other factors.
For many years, the data were collected by people standing on the side and observing the traffic, then the data were evaluated manually. This process was lengthy, inefficient, and had low-precision data output. All of these shortcomings are overtaken with a new modern approach combining 2 great technologies of today world: drones and AI.

Traffic flow – trajectories: green – cars, yellow – heavy vehicles, red – bicycles, blue – pedestrians

Read a post in “de Gerlander” online magazine.

Thursday April 18th, 2019 in News

Modelling of the tactical behavior of cyclists

DataFromSky delivers the data for the models of tactical behavior of cyclists communicating their intentions.
The research project focuses on modeling the behavior of bicyclists at intersections under complex traffic situations and interactions with motor vehicle traffic.

Bicycling is an important part of the urban transport system and traffic control measures are necessary to control traffic flow. The capacity and traffic quality of all traffic participants at signalized intersections can be highly influenced depending on the volume of bicycles.

Video data for this project were collected by setting up high definition cameras on the top of the buildings (to obtain suitable aerial view for the DataFromSky Aerial analysis) near several intersections in the cities of Munich and Freiburg in Germany. Explicit and implicit behavior patterns of cyclists at intersections in the video are observed. Explicit behaviors include bicyclists’ body language to reveal their intentions like hand gestures or head movement. Implicit behaviors such as speed change, view change, or path change, indicate the lateral movement of cyclists indirectly. As for lane changing behavior and driving features, such as speed and positions, extracted by DataFromSky, the cyclist’s path selection behavior at intersections is analytically described.

The analyzed video data results in a model that predicts the behavior of cyclists at intersections based on their explicit and implicit behavior patterns in specific traffic situations. The resulting model can be used for example for supporting tactical and operational functions of automated vehicles in specific traffic situations or as an initial analysis that can give traffic and urban planners a very good overview for proposing some traffic adjustments.

This research project, with the use of DataFromSky, is being carried out by Technical University of Munich in Germany, Department of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering, lead by Dr. rer. nat. Andreas Keler, Dr.-Ing. Matthias Spangler, created by M.Sc. Georgios Grigoropoulos and Niu Ruixin.

Traffic flow based on trajectries: green – cars, red – cyclists, blue – pedestrians

Friday March 15th, 2019 in News

Our team presents DataFromSky in the TV news

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.

Have a look at the full reportage in Slovak TV

(play the video from 0:35 – 5:15, available only in Czech/Slovak language).

Monday March 11th, 2019 in News

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