Project LiDiMoVer

LiDiMoVer is an innovative smart city research initiative focused on advancing urban mobility analysis through the use of LiDAR-based sensing and artificial intelligence. In this project, LiDAR sensors are deployed on existing urban infrastructure—such as traffic signals and street lighting—to continuously capture high-resolution, three-dimensional data of road environments.

A central objective of LiDiMoVer is to transform these raw LiDAR recordings into a semantically rich, searchable database. Our team is actively engaged in research activities aimed at developing advanced AI models that automatically interpret movement patterns and generate natural language descriptions of traffic behaviors, with a particular emphasis on maneuvers and interactions. This enables intuitive text-based querying of dynamic urban traffic scenes and opens new possibilities for traffic analysis, safety research, and intelligent transportation systems.

The project is implemented in the city of Wesel, providing a real-world testbed for scalable smart city technologies. It is carried out through close collaboration between LASER PeCo Systemtechnik GmbH, the City of Wesel, and academic partners including the University of Wuppertal and Hochschule Ruhr West. Our team operates within the ACM AI Lab, which is part of IZMD at the University of Wuppertal, contributing expertise in AI-driven perception and semantic understanding.

LiDiMoVer is supported with a total funding volume of approximately €2.5 million. The project is co-financed by the European Union and funded by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Protection and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW).