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Millions told to prepare NOW as Tropical Storm Warning is issued along US coast: 'Arthur is coming'

Daily Mail - Science & tech

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Advance Real-time Detection of Traffic Incidents in Highways using Vehicle Trajectory Data

arXiv.org Machine Learning

A significant number of traffic crashes are secondary crashes that occur because of an earlier incident on the road. Thus, early detection of traffic incidents is crucial for road users from safety perspectives with a potential to reduce the risk of secondary crashes. The wide availability of GPS devices now-a-days gives an opportunity of tracking and recording vehicle trajectories. The objective of this study is to use vehicle trajectory data for advance real-time detection of traffic incidents on highways using machine learning-based algorithms. The study uses three days of unevenly sequenced vehicle trajectory data and traffic incident data on I-10, one of the most crash-prone highways in Louisiana. Vehicle trajectories are converted to trajectories based on virtual detector locations to maintain spatial uniformity as well as to generate historical traffic data for machine learning algorithms. Trips matched with traffic incidents on the way are separated and along with other trips with similar spatial attributes are used to build a database for modeling. Multiple machine learning algorithms such as Logistic Regression, Random Forest, Extreme Gradient Boost, and Artificial Neural Network models are used to detect a trajectory that is likely to face an incident in the downstream road section. Results suggest that the Random Forest model achieves the best performance for predicting an incident with reasonable recall value and discrimination capability.


The Morning After: Apple's Mac and Google's Pixel events, previewed

Engadget

Apple's second fall product event kicks off later today at 1 PM ET. We've laid out what to expect, but it's not the only big tech event week. Spare a thought for some of our staff, who will go straight from Apple reportage into Google. Yep, Tuesday October 19th is Google's Pixel 6 event. While we know what the phone will look like -- and some of its specifications -- expect to see some software surprises.


Envisioning Safer Cities with Artificial Intelligence (AI) - ELE Times

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AI is providing new opportunities in a range of fields, from business to industrial design to entertainment. How might machine- and deep-learning help us create safer, more sustainable, and resilient built environments? A team of researchers from the NSF NHERI SimCenter, computational modeling and simulation center for the natural hazards engineering community-based at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a suite of tools called BRAILS--Building Recognition using AI at Large-Scale--that can automatically identify characteristics of buildings in a city and even detect the risks that a city's structures would face in an earthquake, hurricane, or tsunami. Charles (Chaofeng) Wang, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, and the lead developer of BRAILS, says the project grew out of a need to quickly and reliably characterize the structures in a city. "We want to simulate the impact of hazards on all of the buildings in a region, but we don't have a description of the building attributes," Wang said. "For example, in the San Francisco Bay area, there are millions of buildings.


Envisioning safer cities with AI

#artificialintelligence

Artificial intelligence is providing new opportunities in a range of fields, from business to industrial design to entertainment. How might machine- and deep-learning help us create safer, more sustainable, and resilient built environments? A team of researchers from the NSF NHERI SimCenter, a computational modeling and simulation center for the natural hazards engineering community based at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a suite of tools called BRAILS--Building Recognition using AI at Large-Scale--that can automatically identify characteristics of buildings in a city and even detect the risks that a city's structures would face in an earthquake, hurricane, or tsunami. Charles (Chaofeng) Wang, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, and the lead developer of BRAILS, says the project grew out of a need to quickly and reliably characterize the structures in a city. "We want to simulate the impact of hazards on all of the buildings in a region, but we don't have a description of the building attributes," Wang said. "For example, in the San Francisco Bay area, there are millions of buildings.