Traffic monitoring and vehicle tracking using roadside cameras

Yao Jan Wu, Feng Li Lian, Tang Hsien Chang

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Abstract

This paper studies the integration and implementation of digital image processing techniques on the roadside camera for traffic monitoring and vehicle tracking. The image processing framework developed in this study is mainly composed of five stages: (1) pre-processing, (2) foreground segmentation, (3) shadow removal, (4) tracking, and (5) traffic parameters extraction. During the pre-processing stage, the information of road geometry is obtained and the camera is calibrated. At the foreground segmentation stage and shadow removal stage, moving vehicles are segmented from the original input images. To make the system more robust, an a-β filter is used at the multi-vehicle tracking stage. Subsequently, related traffic parameters are extracted at the end of each tracking mechanism. The experimental results show that this system is capable of successfully extracting the traffic parameters, including the trajectory of the moving vehicles based on the image sequences captured by a digital camera on a free flow traffic in the daytime..

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2006 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages4631-4636
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)1424401003, 9781424401000
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Externally publishedYes
Event2006 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China
Duration: Oct 8 2006Oct 11 2006

Publication series

NameConference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
Volume6
ISSN (Print)1062-922X

Other

Other2006 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
Country/TerritoryTaiwan, Province of China
CityTaipei
Period10/8/0610/11/06

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Engineering

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