Title :
Vehicle detection and tracking for freeway traffic monitoring
Author :
Gloyer, B. ; Aghajan, Hamid K. ; Siu, Kai-Yeung ; Kailath, Thomas
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Irvine, CA, USA
fDate :
31 Oct-2 Nov 1994
Abstract :
An image processing and object tracking approach is proposed for the design of a video-based freeway traffic monitoring system. Proper estimation of the traffic speed in different lanes of a freeway allows for timely detection of possible congestions. The proposed method consists of a road modeling stage and a vehicle tracking stage. In the first stage, a three-dimensional model of the background road image is generated. In the tracking stage, each car in the scene is isolated and tracked over many frames. Experimental results on frame sequences taken from Santa Ana area freeways are presented
Keywords :
automobiles; image sequences; road traffic; tracking; traffic control; video cameras; video signal processing; Santa Ana area freeways; background road image; car; experimental results; frame sequences; freeway traffic control; freeway traffic monitoring; image processing; object tracking; road modeling; three-dimensional model; traffic speed estimation; vehicle detection; vehicle tracking; video-based system; Computerized monitoring; Image generation; Image processing; Information systems; Layout; Pixel; Road vehicles; Solid modeling; Traffic control; Vehicle detection;
Conference_Titel :
Signals, Systems and Computers, 1994. 1994 Conference Record of the Twenty-Eighth Asilomar Conference on
Conference_Location :
Pacific Grove, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-6405-3
DOI :
10.1109/ACSSC.1994.471604
