README.md

Observing traffic in the City of Muenster

Image classification and object detection, applied to a public webcam in the city of Münster.

See webcam data source here.

Dependencies

• Tested on Ubuntu 20.04
• ffmpeg, e.g. on Ubuntu install with:

sudo apt install ffmpeg

Getting started

1. Create and activate virtual environment. For example with conda:

   conda env create -n cam python=3.7
   conda activate cam

2. Install Python dependencies and traffic-cam package (with virtual environment activated):

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   pip install -e .

3. Run scripts in bin/ in their numerical order. This includes downloading images, training a classifier, and counting persons.