Glasgow City Council, (2025) Glasgow CCTV Object Detection Data. [Data Collection]

Not all data is available to download from this page. Usually this is because the dataset is too large or it is restricted in some way.

Collection description

Overview:
The Urban Big Data Centre runs the Glasgow CCTV Object Detection project in partnership with the Glasgow City Council and the Glasgow Centre for Population Health. Glasgow City Council is responsible for the capture of half-hourly images by all the cameras in the project whereas the Data Science Team at the Urban Big Data Centre is responsible for processing the objects of interest localized on the images and for making this data available to users through their CCTV API. This project aims to develop methods to use CCTV images to produce regular statistics on activity levels in urban areas.

Glasgow CCTV Object Detection data:
The Glasgow CCTV Object Detection platform provides counts of street traffic and pedestrians recorded at 85 different locations across Glasgow. Our model, developed by the team at UBDC, uses object detection technology to record the number of people and vehicles passing by CCTV cameras.
Logging new data at regular intervals each day, this project aims to improve public understanding of mobility and traffic patterns across Glasgow.
This platform provides access to the project's latest data through an API and .csv file download so that individuals and researchers can use it to promote better understanding of our city.

Access and restrictions:
The CCTV dataset is open data. This dataset is available in the CCTV API website by one of two ways:
1.CSV download: Manually press the button on the website to download all data in csv format (only Yolo data is available through this way). An alternative way to explore the Yolo data is by using the API Dashboard, thus having a first sense of the counts of the objects in different locations, over time.
2.API request. Live data is accessible as open data directly via API on the CCTV website at https://glasgow-cctv.ubdc.ac.uk/. Ex.: https://glasgow-cctv.ubdc.ac.uk/api/yolo/records/?date_after=20230224&date_before=20230226

Yearly data for archival is sent to the University of Glasgow's Enlighten repository.

More information:

Further information about the Glasgow CCTV Object Detection project is available on the UBDC website at https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/news/the-glasgow-cctv-object-detection-project

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