arXiv:2603.13903cs.LGcs.SD2026-03

用光纤传感数据识别城市交通,让神经网络学会关注关键时空位置。

Distributed Acoustic Sensing for Urban Traffic Monitoring: Spatio-Temporal Attention in Recurrent Neural Networks

  • 在RNN中加入时空注意力机制,捕捉车辆通过时的动态特征。
  • 新模型准确率提升,且参数更少,推理更高效。
  • 结果可解释性强,能在不同路段迁移使用,适合实际部署。

有效的城市交通监测对于改善出行、提升安全和推动可持续城市发展至关重要。分布式声学传感(DAS)可通过将现有光纤基础设施转化为密集振动传感器阵列,实现大范围交通观测。然而,对DAS数据高分辨率时空结构进行建模以实现可靠的交通事件识别仍具挑战。本研究在西班牙格拉纳达开展真实世界实验,车辆垂直穿越部署的光纤。采用循环神经网络(RNN)建模事件内与事件间的时序依赖关系,并系统性地在RNN架构中集成空间与时间注意力机制,分析其对识别性能、参数效率及可解释性的影响。结果显示,注意力模块的合理互补布局可平衡精度与模型复杂度。注意力热图提供了物理上可解释的分类依据,凸显关键时空区域。此外,所提出的SA-bi-TA配置展现出空间可迁移性,在训练外的传感位置仍能有效识别交通事件,仅出现适度性能下降。这些发现支持构建可扩展、可解释的DAS交通监测系统,适用于异构城市传感环境。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Effective urban traffic monitoring is essential for improving mobility, enhancing safety, and supporting sustainable cities. Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) enables large-scale traffic observation by transforming existing fiber-optic infrastructure into dense arrays of vibration sensors. However, modeling the high-resolution spatio-temporal structure of DAS data for reliable traffic event recognition remains challenging. This study presents a real-world DAS-based traffic monitoring experiment conducted in Granada, Spain, where vehicles cross a fiber deployed perpendicular to the roadway. Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are employed to model intra- and inter-event temporal dependencies. Spatial and temporal attention mechanisms are systematically integrated within the RNN architecture to analyze their impact on recognition performance, parameter efficiency, and interpretability. Results show that an appropriate and complementary placement of attention modules improves the balance between accuracy and model complexity. Attention heatmaps provide physically meaningful interpretations of classification decisions by highlighting informative spatial locations and temporal segments. Furthermore, the proposed SA-bi-TA configuration demonstrates spatial transferability, successfully recognizing traffic events at sensing locations different from those used during training, with only moderate performance degradation. These findings support the development of scalable and interpretable DAS-based traffic monitoring systems capable of operating under heterogeneous urban sensing conditions.

交通监测光纤传感注意力机制时空模型

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