{"id":18819,"date":"2020-04-10T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=18819"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:01","slug":"live-public-street-cams-are-tracking-social-distancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/10\/live-public-street-cams-are-tracking-social-distancing\/","title":{"rendered":"Live public street cams are tracking social distancing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tracking social distancing through live camera feeds and computer vision\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SuS-ybvyTT4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With advanced computer vision models and live public street cam video, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.umich.edu\/live-public-street-cams-are-tracking-social-distancing\/\">a U-M startup is tracking social distancing behaviors in real time<\/a> at some of the most visited places in the world. Voxel51\u2019s new tool&nbsp;uses the company\u2019s existing platform and underlying custom AI to continuously track vehicle, cyclist, and pedestrian traffic at seven locations around the world, and assigns each place a \u201cphysical distancing index,\u201d or PDI score, once every 15 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis pandemic is having an unprecedented impact on our daily lives and what we\u2019re trying to do is create a tool to improve public awareness,\u201d said <strong>Jason Corso<\/strong>, U-M professor of electrical and computer engineering and CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/pdi.voxel51.com\/\">Voxel51<\/a>, an Ann Arbor video analytics and data management company. While other projects are also tracking lockdown compliance, what\u2019s different about Voxel51\u2019s approach is that it\u2019s real-time, video-based, and protects privacy. Data sources like mobile phones don\u2019t protect privacy and only offer approximate locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With advanced computer vision models and live public street cam video, a U-M startup is tracking social distancing behaviors in real time at some of the most visited places in the world. Voxel51\u2019s new tool&nbsp;uses the company\u2019s existing platform and underlying custom AI to continuously track vehicle, cyclist, and pedestrian traffic at seven locations around the world, and\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/10\/live-public-street-cams-are-tracking-social-distancing\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[61,178,810,115],"class_list":["post-18819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-ai","tag-business","tag-covid","tag-video"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Tracking-social-distancing-1-7-screenshot.png",600,420,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Tracking-social-distancing-1-7-screenshot-200x140.png",200,140,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Tracking-social-distancing-1-7-screenshot-286x200.png",286,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Tracking-social-distancing-1-7-screenshot.png",600,420,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Tracking-social-distancing-1-7-screenshot.png",600,420,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Tracking-social-distancing-1-7-screenshot.png",600,420,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Tracking-social-distancing-1-7-screenshot.png",600,420,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Tracking-social-distancing-1-7-screenshot-200x140.png",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Tracking-social-distancing-1-7-screenshot-60x42.png",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Tracking-social-distancing-1-7-screenshot-600x300.png",600,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Tracking-social-distancing-1-7-screenshot.png",600,420,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Tracking-social-distancing-1-7-screenshot.png",357,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"With advanced computer vision models and live public street cam video, a U-M startup is tracking social distancing behaviors in real time at some of the most visited places in the world. 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