Deep Learning Approach for Traffic Congestion Sound Classification using Circular Neural Networks

Traffic congestion has become one of the main problems that occur in big cities around the world. Traffic congestion also has a negative impact if not handled seriously. Traffic congestion occurs because there is a buildup of vehicle volume that exceeds the capacity of the road. The efficiency and quality of living in cities can be negatively impacted by traffic congestion, which can also result in higher fuel consumption, pollution, and delays. There needs to be a method that can overcome and identify this. Therefore, by classifying sounds, this research aims to reduce traffic congestion. The author uses deep learning with the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) method as the algorithm model. The model employs Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) as the primary feature extraction technique to capture the essential characteristics of the audio signals. This research is expected to be able to classify traffic congestion sounds with good accuracy, so it can be used as a solution to overcome traffic congestion. Experiments were conducted using a training dataset, and for testing, the road sound dataset has been collected at traffic light intersections. To evaluate the proposed method, the implementation showed promising results, achieving an accuracy of 97.62% on the training data and 88.19% on the test data in classifying traffic congestion sounds.