Teaching a Neural Network to See Roads

Predicting the locations of traffic accidents with satellite imagery and convolutional neural networks

Laura Lewis
Towards Data Science
6 min readJun 9, 2019

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The problem

Each year about 1.25 million people worldwide die in road traffic accidents, and an additional 20–50 million are injured or disabled. If the locations of traffic accidents could be…

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Data Scientist at Amazon. Previously in data in startups, academia and government. Oxford PhD.