Game theory improves smart road sign security against small perturbations.
problem Ensuring smart road signs are secure from small-scale adversarial attacks.
method Integrates game theory into smart road sign classification to detect imperceptible perturbations.
result Proposes a randomized detection strategy to ensure robustness against worst-case attackers.
Owing to the expeditious growth in the information and communication technologies, smart cities have raised the expectations in terms of efficient functioning and management. One key aspect of residents' daily comfort is assured through affording reliable traffic management and route planning. Comprehensively, the majo…
Paper proposes machine learning models for more accurate road inspection.
problem Traditional road inspection systems have safety, energy, and cost issues.
method Hybrid machine learning models using surface deflection data from FWD tests.
result CMIS model outperforms other models with APRE=2.3303, AAPRE=11.6768, RMSE=12.0056, and SD=0.0210.
Neural networks predict traffic flow in smart cities.
problem Forecasting stochastic and nonlinear traffic flow.
method Various recurrent neural networks trained on intersection data.
result Vector output model with gated recurrent units performed best.
Recent advances in smart cities applications enforce security threads such as node replication attacks. Such attack is take place when the attacker plants a replicated network node within the network. Vehicular Ad hoc networks are connecting sensors that have limited resources and required the response time to be as lo…
Deep Neural Networks are built to generalize outside of training set in mind by using techniques such as regularization, early stopping and dropout. But considerations to make them more resilient to adversarial examples are rarely taken. As deep neural networks become more prevalent in mission-critical and real-time sy…
Estimating the travel time of a path is of great importance to smart urban mobility. Existing approaches are either based on estimating the time cost of each road segment which are not able to capture many cross-segment complex factors, or designed heuristically in a non-learning-based way which fail to utilize the exi…
New indicator detects financial strain through smart meter data.
problem Fuel poverty in households, affecting millions.
method Smart meters and machine learning for behavior measurement.
result Early detection of financial strain in households.
GCNs adapted for road networks improve performance on edge prediction tasks.
problem Improving machine learning on road networks for edge prediction tasks.
method Introducing Relational Fusion Network (RFN) for road networks.
result RFN outperforms state-of-the-art GCNs on road segment regression and classification tasks.
Paper proposes a method to improve autonomous vehicle performance using synthetically generated images.
problem Limited access to real-world datasets for autonomous vehicle training in countries with scarce data.
method Synthetically generated images to augment and train neural networks on small datasets.
result About 10% improvement in model performance observed.
We leverage automatic differentiation (AD) and probabilistic programming to develop an end-to-end optimization algorithm for batch triangulation of a large number of unknown objects. Given noisy detections extracted from noisily geo-located street level imagery without depth information, we jointly estimate the number …
RFN improves GCNs for road networks, outperforming state-of-the-art by 21%-40%.
problem Leveraging the structure of road networks effectively in machine learning tasks.
method Introducing RFN, a novel GCN specifically designed for road networks.
result RFN outperforms state-of-the-art GCNs by 21%-40% on road network tasks.
System predicts ice formation to improve road safety.
problem Improving road safety through accurate ice formation prediction.
method Combining physical models and machine learning for data correction.
result Machine learning effectively corrects incorrect data in forecasts.
Network embedding helps predict speed limits on incomplete Danish road network.
problem Incomplete speed limit data on Danish roads limits machine learning applications.
method Applied node2vec network embedding to Danish road network.
result Network embedding can derive useful features for predicting speed limits.
Paper presents a self-supervised method to infer road lane networks.
problem Difficult and costly to create lane maps for autonomous vehicles.
method Self-supervised learning using neural and search-based model.
result Model can generalize to new road layouts, unlike previous approaches.
Study proposes GRU-D networks for missing value handling in road surface friction prediction.
problem Missing values in road surface friction data affect prediction accuracy.
method Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) network with decay mechanism.
result GRU-D networks outperform baseline models in road surface friction prediction.
Deep learning maps road safety features from streetview imagery.
problem Accurate mapping of road safety features for safer roads.
method Proposes a deep learning approach with LSTM to capture spatial autocorrelation.
result Model outperforms baseline methods in mapping road safety features.
Study finds color-coded DMSs improve driver behavior.
problem Improving driver behavior through dynamic message signs.
method Random forest algorithm for route diversion, choice, and compliance analyses.
result Color-coded DMSs are more effective than alphanumeric ones.
Model predicts road vehicle accidents with high resolution.
problem Accidents on roads in Montreal.
method Big data analytics, machine learning (Balanced Random Forest algorithm).
result 85% of road vehicle collisions detected with 13% false positives.
Automated road infrastructure mapping using connected vehicle data and deep learning.
problem Manual identification of intersections is laborious and time-consuming.
method Geohashing, YOLOv5 algorithm for classification of road segments and intersections.
result Overall classification accuracy of 95%, with high F1 scores for straight roads and intersections.
Generative model extracts road networks from images.
problem Extracting road networks from image data.
method Developed Generative Graph Transformer (GGT) for image-conditioned graph generation.
result Demonstrated effective road network generation from semantic segmentation data.
Machine learning detects road anomalies and aggressive driving from smartphone data.
problem Road quality assessment and aggressive driving detection.
method Machine learning techniques applied to smartphone acceleration data.
result Robust platform for road transport evaluation.
Proposes a probabilistic framework for smart contract risk quantification.
problem Quantifying financial risk of smart contract cyber attacks and failures.
method Probabilistic graph-theoretical framework using bond percolation models.
result Analytical results and numerical examples for aggregate loss distribution.
More than half of the world's roads lack adequate street addressing systems. Lack of addresses is even more visible in daily lives of people in developing countries. We would like to object to the assumption that having an address is a luxury, by proposing a generative address design that maps the world in accordance w…
Paper proposes auction method for smart derivatives to avoid disputes.
problem Disputes over derivative liquidation processes in smart contracts.
method Defines an auction type resolution for smart derivatives.
result Proposes a beneficial method for smart derivatives participants.
This paper uses deep reinforcement learning to optimize UAV-assisted vehicular networks.
problem Optimizing UAV-assisted vehicular networks for efficient communication in smart cities.
method Formulated a Markov decision process (MDP) problem and solved it using deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) method.
result Proposed solutions maximize total throughput per unit energy and encourage UAV mobility.
Recently, a wide range of smart devices are deployed in a variety of environments to improve the quality of human life. One of the important IoT-based applications is smart homes for healthcare, especially for elders. IoT-based smart homes enable elders' health to be properly monitored and taken care of. However, elder…
New methods detect roads in low-res satellite data, overcoming visibility challenges.
problem Detecting roads in low-resolution satellite imagery, especially those hard to see.
method Two deep learning frameworks for ordinal classification of road types from satellite time series data.
result Models can identify large and medium-sized roads from Sentinel-2 imagery.
Study improves prediction of UK road accidents' severity using AI.
problem Improving prediction of UK road traffic accident severity.
method Combination of machine learning, econometric, and statistical methods on historical data.
result XGBoost model with RMSE of 0.176 and MAE of 0.087 outperforms naive forecasting.
Enhanced travel time prediction using deep neural networks and road network information.
problem Improving travel time estimation using deep learning models.
method Proposes incorporating road network information into deep learning models for travel time prediction.
result Improved travel time prediction, especially with limited training data.
Study shows 'Belt and Road' node cities boost digital finance in China.
problem Impact of 'Belt and Road' node cities on digital inclusive finance.
method Descriptive analysis, literature review, theoretical model, differential differential method.
result Establishment of 'Belt and Road' node cities promotes digital inclusive finance in China, with Internet development as a mediating variable.
3D-TGCN learns road graphs from time series similarity for spatio-temporal traffic forecasting.
problem Challenging spatio-temporal prediction in traffic networks due to dependency and dynamics.
method Proposes 3D-TGCN with novel components: spatial information-free road graph and 3D graph convolution.
result 3D-TGCN outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in traffic forecasting.
Road Network Metric Learning improves ETA prediction accuracy by addressing data sparsity.
problem Data sparsity in road network embedding vectors affects ETA prediction accuracy.
method Proposes Road Network Metric Learning (RNML-ETA) framework with an auxiliary metric learning task and triangle loss.
result RNML-ETA outperforms state-of-the-art models and improves prediction accuracy for cold links.
Roads are critically important infrastructure to societal and economic development, with huge investments made by governments every year. However, methods for monitoring those investments tend to be time-consuming, laborious, and expensive, placing them out of reach for many developing regions. In this work, we develop…
Study improves traffic prediction intervals for minor roads.
problem Uncertainty in traffic data for underrepresented minor roads.
method Quantile Random Forest with PCA for interval prediction.
result Achieved 88.22% interval coverage and Winkler Score of 7,468.47.
This paper surveys smart buildings using machine learning and big data.
problem Improving comfort and efficiency in smart buildings through data analysis.
method Survey of machine learning and big data techniques for smart buildings.
result Machine learning and big data are crucial for smart building services.
Develops a deep clustering framework for large-scale road traffic prediction.
problem Challenges in modeling diverse traffic patterns and handling high-dimensional time series with low latency.
method Combines deep clustering with CNNs and RNNs to predict road traffic at large-scale networks.
result The DeepCluster framework effectively clusters road segments and improves prediction performance.
China's rapid economic growth resulted in serious air pollution, which caused substantial losses to economic development and residents' health. In particular, the road transport sector has been blamed to be one of the major emitters. During the past decades, fluctuation in the international oil prices has imposed signi…
FinTech uses data science and AI to transform finance.
problem Transforming finance with data science and AI.
method DSAI techniques including complex system methods, quantitative methods, etc.
result DSAI enables smart FinTech for various financial sectors.
Model predicts road traffic using high-dimensional time-series with L1-penalization.
problem Predicting high-dimensional road traffic data with limited observations.
method Vector autoregressive model with L1-penalization for high-dimensional regression.
result The approach identifies the most important road sections and is competitive in prediction.
The paper categorizes four types of scale-up: smart, dumb, forced, and fumbled.
problem Growing ventures in size and maintaining efficiency.
method Identifying modularity and speed as key factors, categorizing four types of scale-up.
result Modularity and speed are crucial for successful scale-up.
NL-LinkNet improves road extraction from satellite images with fewer parameters and faster training.
problem Efficiently extracting roads from high-resolution satellite images.
method Integrates non-local blocks into LinkNet for better feature context.
result NL-LinkNet outperformed state-of-the-art models in the DeepGlobe Challenge.
We provide a model to understand how adverse weather conditions modify traffic flow dynamic. We first prove that the microscopic Free Flow Speed of the vehicles is changed and then provide a rule to model this change. For this, we consider a thresholded linear model, corresponding to an application of a MARS model to r…
Improved road segmentation on low-res LIDAR data for autonomous vehicles.
problem Low-resolution LIDAR data affects road segmentation accuracy in autonomous vehicles.
method Subsampled LIDAR data transformation into feature maps, use local normal vector with spherical coordinates.
result Improves road segmentation accuracy on low-resolution LIDAR data.
Smart contracts create digital financial derivatives.
problem Creating a new digital financial derivative contract.
method Applied existing smart contract technologies to develop two prototypes.
result Demonstrated feasibility of digital financial derivatives on centralized and DLT platforms.
Improved security of smart contracts by classifying them into four categories.
problem Detecting and classifying vulnerabilities in smart contracts efficiently.
method Used AWD-LSTM for multi-class classification, addressing class imbalance.
result Achieved a weighted average Fbeta score of 90.0%.
Modern vehicles are equipped with increasingly complex sensors. These sensors generate large volumes of data that provide opportunities for modeling and analysis. Here, we are interested in exploiting this data to learn aspects of behaviors and the road network associated with individual drivers. Our dataset is collect…
SMART simplifies data labeling for machine learning.
problem Creating labeled training data for machine learning.
method Intuitive web interface, active learning, inter-rater reliability.
result Reduces the need for labeled data and improves label quality.