Title :
Traffic monitoring and accident detection at intersections
Author :
Kamijo, Shunsuke ; Matsushita, Yasuyuki ; Ikeuchi, Katsushi ; Sakauchi, Masao
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Ind. Sci., Tokyo Univ., Japan
fDate :
6/21/1905 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The number of deaths and injuries from traffic accidents has been rapidly increasing. Most of those accidents occur at and nearby intersections. In order to analyze those accident events, we set up a video camera and recorded those traffic activities all day. In this paper, we describe this traffic monitoring system, the method for tracking vehicles, and the method for detecting accidents by using the hidden Markov model. Finally, we demonstrate our success by presenting the experimental results achieved by applying this method to video sequences obtained by the monitoring system
Keywords :
image recognition; traffic information systems; accident detection; hidden Markov model; intersections; traffic accidents; traffic monitoring; traffic monitoring system; video camera; video sequences; Cameras; Event detection; Hidden Markov models; Histograms; Image sequences; Injuries; Monitoring; Road accidents; Traffic control; Vehicle detection;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Transportation Systems, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE/IEEJ/JSAI International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4975-X
DOI :
10.1109/ITSC.1999.821147
