Inferring Intersection Traffic Patterns With Sparse Video Surveillance Information: An ST-GAN Method
Pengkun Wang, Chaochao Zhu, Xu Wang, Zhengyang Zhou, Guang Wang, Yang Wang
Abstract
Traffic patterns of urban road intersections are important in traffic monitoring and accident prediction, thus play crucial roles in urban traffic management. Although real-time traffic information is consistently provided by surveillance cameras equipped at road intersections, the sparsity of surveillance distribution poses great challenges in performing a complete real-time traffic pattern analysis. To tackle that, existing works either assume that the traffic patterns are static, or assume a multi-variant distribution model for intersection traffic volumes. The former assumption neglects the temporal features of traffic patterns, and the latter is limited in capturing fine-grained spatiotemporal dependencies. To tackle the problem, we propose a novel framework, SpatioTemporal-Generative Adversarial Network (ST-GAN), that exploits deep spatiotemporal features of urban networks and offers accurate traffic pattern inferences with incomplete surveillance information. The ST-GAN framework incorporates a modified GCN network wired with the encoder-decoder mechanism and an LSTM network, which are further boosted by an iterative adversarial training process. Comprehensive experiments on real datasets show that ST-GAN achieves better inference accuracies than state-of-the-art solutions.