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Title	Fiber Sensing In The 6G Era: Vision Transformers For Φ-Otdr-Based Road-Traffic Monitoring
ID_Doc	26443
Authors	Colares R.A.; Rittner L.; Conforti E.; Mello D.A.A.
Year	2025
Published	Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 15, 6
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app15063170
Abstract	This article adds to the emergent body of research that examines the potential of 6G as a platform that can combine wired and wireless sensing modalities. We apply vision transformers (ViTs) in a distributed fiber-optic sensing system to evaluate road traffic parameters in smart cities. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are also assessed for benchmarking. The experimental setup is based on a direct-detection phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometer ((Formula presented.) -OTDR) implemented using a narrow linewidth source. The monitored fibers are buried on the university campus, creating a smart city environment. Backscattered traces are consolidated into space–time matrices, illustrating traffic patterns and enabling analysis through image processing algorithms. The ground truth is established by traffic parameters obtained by processing video camera images monitoring the same street using the YOLOv8 model. The results indicate that ViTs outperform CNNs for estimating the number of vehicles and the mean vehicle speed. While a ViT necessitates a significantly larger number of parameters, its complexity is similar to that of a CNN when considering multiply–accumulate operations and random access memory usage. The processed dataset has been made publicly available for benchmarking. © 2025 by the authors.
Author Keywords	deep learning; distributed fiber-optic sensing; phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometer

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