How cities use data to plan bike routes
GCN
•
Aug. 5, 2016
Placemeter -- a video tracking system that analyzes existing video feeds and applies computer vision algorithms to them to count cars, pedestrians and bicycles -- is doing its best to track traffic and still appease those who might be a little camera shy by only recording shapes, not faces.
Watch New Yorkers Hurry Across Union Square in Real-Time
CityLab
•
Feb. 9, 2016
Previously, the company tracked pedestrian movement around the city after it had already taken place. But now the Placemeter team has created a map that makes it possible to do so in real-time for a busy intersection at Union Square.
Placemeter: Analytics for the Real World
DZone
•
Dec. 29, 2015
Like most of us, I use ProductHunt to keep an eye on the most valued of these products. Placemeter caught my attention a few weeks back, with it's claim that it "turns video into meaningful data". With this combination of computer vision and data analytics, I had to find out more.