Object Detection Zoo PART-4 | Bicycle Detection

When I was a kid bicycle riding was the best part of my life. I always used to keep my bicycle clean and wash it daily. It was the most essential part of my life.

But as time passed, I almost forgot it. I think this is the common story of each and every one of us. As we get new things we forget old ones!

Well recently bicycles riding is a new trend, and many people are adapting it. Some CEOs, actors, businessmen, office workers are preferring bicycles over other vehicles. This preference is mainly for their own health and environmental contribution.

Where I live, in Ahmedabad there is a project for bicycle sharing and renting. Take a look here https://mybyk.in/.

As these types of “Bicycle” related projects are taking place, it’s getting trending again to ride a bicycle instead of other vehicles.

Well as things get trendy, always take benefits out of it. As an AI engineer it’s easy for me to pick any trending opportunities and co-relate/combine it with AI and come up with some use-cases and solutions. Some of them are listed below.

1. Projects like bicycle sharing can use bicycle detection to manage, count, and secure their bicycles automatically using CCTV cameras.
2. Bicycle racing or any other related events can use bicycle detection using cameras to get notifications(To know where the participants have reached because the track sometimes is very long), interesting automated insights like how many participants have reached/covered certain milestones.
3. Bicycle detection is also useful to automate the monitoring for some places where bicycles are prohibited(like National Highways) or only the bicycles are allowed (Like Riverfronts or gardens).
4. Also, this could be useful in smart cities to get interesting insights and information about how many people use bicycles or what’s the frequency of riding bicycles. Which area has the most number of bicycles and which has the least number of bicycles?

Some of these use-cases may not make any sense,

Maybe you can think of a better use-case/application for this!

In the end, it’s all about the individual’s capacity for imagination and thinking.

YouTube Link:

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https://github.com/mihir135

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/mihir-rajput/

Email,

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Any feedback or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks.