For this weeks status report, we are mainly working on testing and refining our algorithm from the object detection / crash detection side of things. The two problems we are working on improving is that we are getting a good amount of false positives due to larger bounding boxes from shadows and larger vehicles such as trucks. We are working on using only the center of the boxes to track the vehicles and using some kind of area thresholding.
With regard to the rerouting we are working on better simulating traffic. We are creating a simulation software script where we put in 20 cars with prescribed routes, and then compare how long they take to get to their destination after the rerouting vs before the rerouting assuming there is a crash that is an obstacle on their path.