Title :
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
fDate :
Sept. 30 2007-Oct. 3 2007
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/ITSC.2007.4357652
