Automated inferential measurement system for traffic surveillance: Enhancing situation awareness of UAVs by computational intelligence

An adaptive inferential measurement framework for control and automation systems has been proposed in the paper and tested on simulated traffic surveillance data. The use of the framework enables making inferences related to the presence of anomalies in the surveillance data with the help of statistical, computational and clustering analysis. Moreover, the performance of the ensemble of these tools can be dynamically tuned by a computational intelligence technique. The experimental results have demonstrated that the framework is generally applicable to various problem domains and reasonable performance is achieved in terms of inferential accuracy. Computational intelligence can also be effectively utilised for identifying the main contributing features in detecting anomalous data points within the surveillance data.