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ARTBA reveals video competition winners

ARTBA reveals the second winner in its safety video contest category.
By MJ Woof February 10, 2020 Read time: 1 min

 

ARTBA’s second winner for the  Safety Category was for Age Group Two (Post-Secondary/College/Graduate Level). This was “Training-free Monocular 3D Event Detection System for Traffic Surveillance” by Lijun Yu. Lijun is pursuing a Master’s of Language Technologies at Carnegie Melon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His video presents models for detecting car crashes as well as actions like stopping and U-turns, and future applications.
 

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