Facial recognition tech, data learning for road safety being studied by Sanral hub 20 April 2021 - 10:18 By TimesLIVE Sanral is looking at data sourced from mechanical learning to activate an appropriate response to hazards that can inform road users – in real time. In view is a file image of the M2 highway bridge when it was under reconstruction. File photo. Image: Thapelo Morebudi / Sunday Times Sanral says its technical innovation hub (TIH) is probing the extent to which machine learning can be harnessed in the quest to improve road safety, reduce congestion and inform infrastructure development. Ruan van Breda, mechatronic engineer at TIH, said: “Machine learning can be used to detect and segment objects within a camera frame (each frame of a video is analysed as a still image). These objects can then be classified based on pre-trained image classifiers.