An Algorithm to Compensate for Road Illumination Changes for AID Systems

Author

Cai, Jun ; Shehata, Mohamed ; Badawy, Wael ; Pervez, Muzamil

Author_Institution

Univ. of Calgalry, Calgary

fYear

2007

fDate

Sept. 30 2007-Oct. 3 2007

Firstpage

980

Lastpage

985

Abstract

Many ITS systems suffer from high false alarm rates due to static glare. Static glare appears in video scenes when the road is wet and light originating from static light source, such as road lamp, is reflected on the road. Often an Automatic Incidents Detection (AID) system will detect occurrences of static glare as incidents, causing the generation of false alarms. In this paper, an effective real-time algorithm is proposed to detect static glare. This algorithm generates a static glare map that can be used by an AID system to avoid static glare false alarms.

Keywords

automated highways; road safety; road traffic; traffic engineering computing; video signal processing; automatic incidents detection; false alarm; intelligent transportation system; road illumination change compensation; road lamp; static glare detection; video scenes; Cities and towns; Filtering algorithms; Intelligent transportation systems; Lamps; Lighting; Monitoring; Optical reflection; Road vehicles; Testing; Vehicle driving; Automatic Incident Detection (AID); Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS); Static Glare Detection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, 2007. ITSC 2007. IEEE

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1396-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1396-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITSC.2007.4357652

Filename

4357652