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Time Series Forecasting (TSF) has been researched extensively, yet predicting time series with big variances and extreme events remains a challenging problem. Extreme events in reservoirs occur rarely but tend to cause huge problems, e.g., flooding entire towns or neighborhoods, which makes accurate reservoir water level prediction exceedingly important. In this work, we develop a novel extreme-ad...Show More
Accurate time series forecasting is critical in a variety of fields, including transportation, weather prediction, energy management, infrastructure monitoring, and finance. Forecasting highly skewed and heavy-tailed time series, particularly in multivariate environments, is still difficult. In these cases, accurately capturing the relationships between variables is critical for successful model d...Show More
The eighth AI City Challenge highlighted the convergence of computer vision and artificial intelligence in areas like retail, warehouse settings, and Intelligent Traffic Systems (ITS), presenting significant research opportunities. The 2024 edition featured five tracks, attracting unprecedented interest from 726 teams in 47 countries and regions. Track 1 dealt with multi-target multi-camera (MTMC)...Show More
Accurate time series forecasting is crucial in various domains, but predicting highly-skewed and heavy-tailed univariate series poses challenges. We introduce the Segment-Expandable Encoder-Decoder (SEED) model, designed for such time series. SEED incorporates segment representation learning, Kullback-Leibler divergence regularization, and an importance-enhanced sampling policy. We tested our mode...Show More
The retail industry has witnessed a remarkable upswing in the utilization of cutting-edge artificial intelligence and computer vision techniques. Among the prominent challenges in this domain is the development of an automated checkout system that can address the multifaceted issues that arise in real-world checkout scenarios, including object occlusion, motion blur, and similarity in scanned item...Show More
The AI City Challenge’s seventh edition emphasizes two domains at the intersection of computer vision and artificial intelligence - retail business and Intelligent Traffic Systems (ITS) - that have considerable untapped potential. The 2023 challenge had five tracks, which drew a record-breaking number of participation requests from 508 teams across 46 countries. Track 1 was a brand new track that ...Show More
The number of people diagnosed with advanced stages of kidney disease has been rising every year. Although early diagnosis and treatment can slow, if not stop, the progression of the disease, many lower income individuals are unable to afford the high cost of frequent testing necessary to keep the disease progression at bay. To address this issue, we designed a kidney health monitoring system that...Show More
The 6th edition of the AI City Challenge specifically focuses on problems in two domains where there is tremendous unlocked potential at the intersection of computer vision and artificial intelligence: Intelligent Traffic Systems (ITS), and brick and mortar retail businesses. The four challenge tracks of the 2022 AI City Challenge received participation requests from 254 teams across 27 countries....Show More
We present a key point-based activity recognition framework, built upon pre-trained human pose estimation and facial feature detection models. Our method extracts complex static and movement-based features from key frames in videos, which are used to predict a sequence of key-frame activities. Finally, a merge procedure is employed to identify robust activity segments while ignoring outlier frame ...Show More
The AI City Challenge was created with two goals in mind: (1) pushing the boundaries of research and development in intelligent video analysis for smarter cities use cases, and (2) assessing tasks where the level of performance is enough to cause real-world adoption. Transportation is a segment ripe for such adoption. The fifth AI City Challenge attracted 305 participating teams across 38 countrie...Show More
The AI City Challenge was created to accelerate intelligent video analysis that helps make cities smarter and safer. Transportation is one of the largest segments that can benefit from actionable insights derived from data captured by sensors, where computer vision and deep learning have shown promise in achieving large-scale practical deployment. The 4th annual edition of the AI City Challenge ha...Show More
Urban traffic optimization using traffic cameras as sensors is driving the need to advance state-of-the-art multi-target multi-camera (MTMC) tracking. This work introduces CityFlow, a city-scale traffic camera dataset consisting of more than 3 hours of synchronized HD videos from 40 cameras across 10 intersections, with the longest distance between two simultaneous cameras being 2.5 km. To the bes...Show More
Predicting stock market prices has been a topic of interest among both analysts and researchers for a long time. Stock prices are hard to predict because of their high volatile nature which depends on diverse political and economic factors, change of leadership, investor sentiment, and many other factors. Predicting stock prices based on either historical data or textual information alone has prov...Show More
With the current surge in the number of devices connected to the Internet all over the world, usage of network bandwidth has also seen a huge increase. This has led to network traffic congestion and slowdowns. It is increasingly important to anticipate future network usage, which would help prepare and provide adequate infrastructure or service support. In this paper, we propose a model that uses ...Show More
A smart traffic analysis system could be used to reduce congestion, prevent accidents, as well as to control traffic flow. Such a system would need to make use of many technologies, such as computer networking, communication, image processing, object detection, and tracking. In this paper, we introduce an efficient vehicle tracking algorithm which could be used to help create a smart city traffic ...Show More
This Research Work in Progress paper introduces the Competitive Learning Platform (CLP), an online tool that provides automatic partial performance feedback to students or groups of students on individual or collaborative assignments. CLP motivates students to think outside-the-box and come up with novel solutions that can lead to improved assignment results before the assignment deadline. We deve...Show More
The NVIDIA AI City Challenge has been created to accelerate intelligent video analysis that helps make cities smarter and safer. With millions of traffic video cameras acting as sensors around the world, there is a significant opportunity for real-time and batch analysis of these videos to provide actionable insights. These insights will benefit a wide variety of agencies, from traffic control to ...Show More
The rapid recent advancements in the computation ability of everyday computers have made it possible to widely apply deep learning methods to the analysis of traffic surveillance videos. Traffic flow prediction, anomaly detection, vehicle re-identification, and vehicle tracking are basic components in traffic analysis. Among these applications, traffic flow prediction, or vehicle speed estimation,...Show More
Communication is paramount, especially during a natural disaster or other emergency. Even when traditional lines of communication become unavailable, emergency response teams must be able to communicate with each other and the outside world. To facilitate this need, major cities across the United States are deploying wireless emergency networks (WENs) that serve as a secure communication channel b...Show More
Web image analysis has witnessed an AI renaissance. The ILSVRC benchmark has been instrumental in providing a corpus and standardized evaluation. The NVIDIA AI City Challenge is envisioned to provide similar impetus to the analysis of image and video data that helps make cities smarter and safer. In its first year, this Challenge has focused on traffic video data. While millions of traffic video c...Show More
The k-nearest neighbor graph is an important structure in many data mining methods for clustering, advertising, recommender systems, and outlier detection. Constructing the graph requires computing up to n2 similarities for a set of n objects. This has led researchers to seek approximate methods, which find many but not all of the nearest neighbors. In contrast, we leverage shared memory paralleli...Show More
Tanimoto, or (extended) Jaccard, is an important similarity measure which has seen prominent use in fields such as data mining and chemoinformatics. Many of the existing state-of-the-art methods for market-basket analysis, plagiarism and anomaly detection, compound database search, and ligand-based virtual screening rely heavily on identifying Tanimoto nearest neighbors. Given the rapidly increasi...Show More
The proliferation of computing devices in recent years has dramatically changed the way people work, play, communicate, and access information. The personal computer (PC) now has to compete with smartphones, tablets, and other devices for tasks it used to be the default device for. Understanding how PC usage evolves over time can help provide the best overall user experience for current customers,...Show More
The All-Pairs similarity search, or self-similarity join problem, finds all pairs of vectors in a high dimensional sparse dataset with a similarity value higher than a given threshold. The problem has been classically solved using a dynamically built inverted index. The search time is reduced by early pruning of candidates using size and value-based bounds on the similarity. In the context of cosi...Show More