1. A traffic monitoring method comprising: obtaining an image of a traffic location, the image of the traffic location including an image portion; generating an image mask, the image mask being dimensionally representative of the image portion; masking the image of the traffic location using the image mask to obtain the image portion, the image portion including an image object; identifying the image object from the image portion; and determining a traffic condition representative of the image portion based at least in part on the identified image object.