Outdoor vehicle and shadow segmentation by temporal edge density information of adjacent frames

Author

Techawatcharapaikul, Chanchai ; Kaewtrakulpong, Pakorn ; Siddhichai, Supakorn

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., King Mongkut´´s Univ. of Technol. Thonburi, Bangkok

Volume

1

fYear

2008

fDate

14-17 May 2008

Firstpage

433

Lastpage

436

Abstract

The problem of vehicle detection and segmentation in outdoor scenes is tackled. Vehicle shadows pose problems in vehicle segmentation step. In this paper, it is proposed to employ temporal edge density information as prior knowledge to distinguish moving vehicle from moving shadow and background in a traffic surveillance system. Experimental results showed good moving vehicle segmentation performance. The proposed approach is currently limited to free-flowing traffic scenes.

Keywords

automated highways; image motion analysis; image segmentation; object detection; video surveillance; free-flowing traffic scenes; outdoor vehicle; shadow segmentation; temporal edge density information; traffic surveillance system; vehicle detection; vehicle segmentation step; Automotive engineering; Cameras; Image segmentation; Layout; Lighting; Robustness; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Surveillance; Traffic control; Vehicle detection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Engineering/Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications and Information Technology, 2008. ECTI-CON 2008. 5th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Krabi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2101-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2102-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECTICON.2008.4600463

Filename

4600463