Research Article

Learning Air Traffic as Images: A Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Airspace Operation Complexity Evaluation

Table 2

Summary of previous works in air traffic complexity evaluation.

CategoryRelated researchPaper

Single modelDifficulty to resolve potential flight conflictsLee et al. [12]
Probability of flight conflictsPrandini et al. [13]
Lyapunov exponent of trajectoryDelahaye and Puechmorel [14, 18]

Factor systemDynamic density method (linear)Kopardekar and Magyarits [15]
PCA + BPNNGianazza [16]
Genetic algorithm + AdaBoostXiao et al. [17]
Semisupervised and active learningZhu et al. [20]
Transfer learningCao et al. [2]

Image-based factorsDeep convolutional neural networkThis paper