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       I was developing/selling this application under Roadometry, but
       sales are getting slow and I'd prefer to make it available for
       free.  This is a desktop Windows application which can be used for
       counting road traffic.  https://roadometry.com
       https://www.youtube.com/@roadometry2011  The application uses
       Multiple Hypothesis Tracking (MHT) combined with Darknet Yolo.  I
       trained the network myself. I have a tool-chain for building a
       video-based training set including associations, but it's quite
       complex to use. I never ended up training a network to perform
       association, but I think a combined detector/associator network is
       the next step.
        
       Author : asfarley
       Score  : 101 points
       Date   : 2024-12-02 22:53 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | haaz wrote:
       | Very cool, thanks for sharing. How did you train it? Just
       | manually labeling the data?
        
         | asfarley wrote:
         | I hired some workers in Bangladesh
        
       | unit149 wrote:
       | <i>I think a combined detector/associator network is the next
       | step.</i>
       | 
       | Repentance for using MHT to accelerate vehicle interconnectedness
       | might consist of V2I.
       | 
       | Audi vehicles with 802.11p V2I capabilities have an information
       | sharing agreement with Traffic Technology Services in certain
       | municipalities that alert a driver of a vehicle when a red light
       | will turn green.
       | 
       | https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/03/cars-that-talk-to-traff...
        
       | larodi wrote:
       | Just tossed it over to my GIS and metro-planning friends and they
       | all reacted with "O-hoooo, what a good news" .
       | 
       | Kudos!
        
         | asfarley wrote:
         | Excellent, I'm going to post links to installers to make it
         | somewhat more convenient, just haven't gotten to that yet
        
       | rjmunro wrote:
       | It's funny that this is released the same day as a 56 minute
       | overhead drone video of the Swindon magic roundabout, one of the
       | UK's most iconic road junctions:
       | https://youtu.be/CzQunCuQCJY?si=X1nbcxiWOCcnm8eO
        
         | asfarley wrote:
         | An interesting effect of counting at roundabouts is that
         | MHT/basic inertial movement models tend to work quite well,
         | because the vehicles aren't stopping and starting, and they
         | tend to not bunch up as much as at a red light
        
       | loftsy wrote:
       | I made an Android app in this space a few years back. It's helped
       | a few people but I never got a grip on the market or
       | understanding of the space.
       | 
       | www.roadcount.com
        
         | asfarley wrote:
         | Looks like it might be using background subtraction, is that
         | right?
        
       | dang wrote:
       | [stub for offtopicness]
        
         | pvg wrote:
         | your github repo link is broken, perhaps you forgot to
         | unprivate it.
        
           | asfarley wrote:
           | Whoops, thank you. Fixed now.
        
         | abetusk wrote:
         | From the EULA.txt [0]:
         | 
         | """ ...
         | 
         | DESCRIPTION OF OTHER RIGHTS AND LIMITATIONS
         | 
         | You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the
         | SOFTWARE PRODUCT, except and only to the extent that such
         | activity is expressly permitted by applicable law
         | notwithstanding this limitation.
         | 
         | ...
         | 
         | COPYRIGHT
         | 
         | All title and copyrights in and to the SOFTWARE PRODUCT
         | (including but not limited to any images, photographs, clipart,
         | libraries, and examples incorporated into the SOFTWARE
         | PRODUCT), the accompanying printed materials, and any copies of
         | the SOFTWARE PRODUCT are owned by the Author of this Software.
         | The SOFTWARE PRODUCT is protected by copyright laws and
         | international treaty provisions. Therefore, you must treat the
         | SOFTWARE PRODUCT like any other copyrighted material. The
         | licensed users or licensed company can use all functions,
         | example, templates, clipart, libraries and symbols in the
         | SOFTWARE PRODUCT to create new diagrams and distribute the
         | diagrams.
         | 
         | ... """
         | 
         | At the bottom of the README:
         | 
         | """ (c) Roadometry 2018 """
         | 
         | Maybe I missed something but this seems pretty closed source to
         | me.
         | 
         | "Source available" would be a more appropriate term for this
         | project.
         | 
         | [0] https://github.com/asfarley/vtc_lfs/blob/master/EULA.txt
        
           | asfarley wrote:
           | I botched the open-sourcing, I intended to post this one:
           | https://github.com/asfarley/vtc_opensource
           | 
           | I've updated the license to BSD 3-Clause and deleted the
           | EULA.txt.
        
             | rahimnathwani wrote:
             | In that repo, the default branch 'main' has only a licence
             | file. Perhaps you meant to make the 'master' branch the
             | default?
        
               | asfarley wrote:
               | Yes, done now
        
         | asfarley wrote:
         | Redacted/updated repo with BSD 3-Clause license:
         | 
         | https://github.com/asfarley/vtc_opensource
         | 
         | Sorry for the confusion
        
           | dang wrote:
           | Ok, we've changed the URL to that from
           | https://github.com/asfarley/vtc_lfs above. Thanks!
        
         | orliesaurus wrote:
         | 404?
        
           | asfarley wrote:
           | I accidentally linked the wrong repo (it was
           | original/unredacted with API keys, etc). The correct repo is:
           | https://github.com/asfarley/vtc_opensource
        
             | gus_massa wrote:
             | Assume someone grabbed the API keys. Change them as soon as
             | possible.
        
             | dang wrote:
             | Changed now. Thanks!
        
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