Author(s): Yue Lin, Ningchuan Xiao
This Jupyter notebook illustrates a quadtree-based algorithm to establish the image regions with high vehicle detection accuracy. A case study is presented to demonstrate how the use of these high accuracy regions can produce reliable road traffic metrics from traffic camera images.
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