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intuNews Issue 67

Roadside Litter Detection

Vehicles throwing trash became a serious problem for highways & exit ramps and sifting through roadside camera videos to find them is a tedious task. Our partners are turning to intuVision VA to detect roadside littering - both to ticket offenders and to arrange trash pick-up.

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I was impressed by the accuracy of the intuVision analytics. Once we taught the system what to look for, I was able to consistently detect small litter items (water bottle) up to 80' away with minimal false alarms. I'm quite confident we would be able to pick up larger litter items at greater distances.

Chris Warren,
Sun Surveillance

Detecting litter along roadways presents a unique challenge, as it involves detecting very small objects in a dynamic scene – with traffic motion, grass moving in the wind, and other effects. Additionally, most common litter objects are semi-transparent, such as empty soda bottles and plastic bags – and to monitor as long of a road segment as possible from each camera, these objects can be very small in the scene.

intuVision VA’s advanced features work well even with these scene complexities, using clutter and noise filtering algorithms, and object classification to minimize effects of nuisance factors and give reliable alarms when a litter object is dropped – and only then.

intuVision VA provides multiple options to review alarms upon detection of litter – through intuVision Review Application, with image snapshots sent via email, with our Web API, or sent to your video or alarm management system. intuVision VA supports all possible response protocols by getting you the information you need, where and when you need it!

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