An overview of extracting static properties of vehicles from the surveillance video

Today, video surveillance technology is playing a more and more important role in traffic detection. Vehicle´s static properties are crucial information in examining criminal and traffic violations. With the development of Video Surveillance technology, it has been wildly used in the traffic monitoring. Therefore, there is a trend to use Video Surveillance to do intelligent analysis on vehicles. Now, using software and tools to analyze vehicles in videos has already been used in smart cards and electronic eye, which helps polices to extract useful information like plate, speed, etc. And the key technology is to obtain various properties of the vehicle. This paper provides an overview of the algorithms and technologies used in extracting static properties of vehicle in the video.