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URBAN DIGITAL INSTALLATION AYSHWARYA SURESH | 2019804003
CASE STUDY 01: Starling CV PEDESTRIAN & VEHICLE BEHAVIOUR PREDICTION SOFTWARE Interactive Crossings: Dynamic Street LEDs Respond to Traffic Demands Starling CV is a pedestrian and vehicle trajectory prediction framework, powered by a neural network, that helps improve road safety. In Starling CV a neural network and computer vision system monitors and classifies moving objects in busy road and roadside scenes in real-time, calculates their trajectories, and infers the location of hidden pedestrians or cyclists (e.g. behind high-sided vehicles and buses). This enables the system to detect, predict and respond to changing safety conditions on pavements, roads and crossings. The system can be installed at any road junction or crossing, and is used to control interactive road and pavement surfaces as well as curbside lighting and road markings, making pedestrians, cyclists & drivers safer and more aware of each other.
FEATURES • Using a neural network framework, Starling CV tracks objects moving across road and pavement surfaces • Distinguishes between different types of pedestrians, cyclists and vehicles • Calculates precise locations, trajectories and velocities • Predicts near-future paths and speeds of moving objects • Evaluates probability of various safety and danger conditions • Optional: interactive road surface • Optional: Design framework for interactive road, pavement and crossing patterns
Use Cases •Pedestrian and vehicular flow analysis and prediction •Dynamic pavement zoning •Dynamic curb lighting for delivery and driver coordination
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The interactive surface sits below high-impact plastic panels with lights triggered by monitoring cameras using smart technologies. The cameras identify crossing needs and adjust accordingly, lighting up zebra stripes that can widen at busy times of day (and widening them for particularly heavy foot traffic). Like more sophisticated versions of traffic signals, the system can adapt and change as needed, instructing drivers when to yield or simply stop altogether. It can also be used to alert people to sudden shifts or unexpected obstacles, like a ball rolling into the street. Illumination levels can also be varied for maximum visibility by day and at night.
DEPLOYMENT A recent full-scale prototype was deployed in West London by Umbrellium, a company founded by Usman Haque, who explains that “The pedestrian crossing that we know hasn’t really be updated since the 1940s, and these days we inhabit our cities in quite a different way. We have mobile phones in our hands that distract us, and our relationship to the city is very different.”
“The pedestrian crossing one of the most complex moments of interaction that almost everyone experiences on a daily basis. It’s that one moment where you’re actually negotiating with others as well as potentially as with big chunks of metal. We’re trying to create pattern sequences that unfold quite calmly so nobody’s surprised, it’s definitely not about distracting people, and the graphics themselves or notions on the surface look very familiar.”
VIDEO SHOWING THE WORKING OF STARLING CV
CASE STUDY 02: Dynamic Canopy
Installation Stretches Outward Like a Flowing Curtain Frozen in Time Dynamic pastel ribbons ripple down into the the traditional Cortile d’Onore courtyard of the Università degli Studi di Milano, creating an effervescent curtain suspended in space and time. The translucent installation, titled Invisible Borders, was designed by MAD Architects for the 2016 Milan Design Week, as part of the “Open Borders” exhibition by the Italian magazine Interni. The piece aims to push against interdisciplinary boundaries and combine areas such as design and architecture with aspects of art and technology. Through the installation, MAD Architects seeks to “alter the perception of space” by exploring the concept of borders. Playing with the partition between the historical façade of the contemporary courtyard, the dynamic polymer strips (designed by P.A.T.I.) appear shaped by an elemental force, weaving through space like wind or water and reflecting the hues of the sky in the same manner.
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