Title :
Real-time detection of moving vehicles
Author :
Cucchiara, R. ; Piccardi, M. ; Prati, A. ; Scarabottolo, N.
Author_Institution :
DSI, Modena Univ., Italy
Abstract :
Computer vision-based traffic flow monitoring is of major importance for enforcing traffic management policies. Information such as the number of vehicles passing on a road per time unit, or vehicles´ turning rates at intersections are exploited by traffic management policies to supervise traffic-light timings. Computer vision-based traffic flow monitoring requires extraction of moving vehicles from traffic scenes in real time. To accomplish this task, efficient algorithms must be used and effective, low-cost hardware implementation must be pursued. This paper first describes the algorithms used in the VTTS (vehicular traffic tracking system) to achieve segmentation of moving vehicles. Then, hardware implementation on a re-programmable FPGA-based board is described in detail
Keywords :
computer vision; computerised monitoring; feature extraction; field programmable gate arrays; image segmentation; object detection; real-time systems; road vehicles; tracking; traffic control; traffic engineering computing; VTTS; computer vision; low-cost hardware implementation; moving vehicle extraction; re-programmable FPGA; real-time detection; segmentation; traffic flow monitoring; traffic management; traffic-light timings; vehicular traffic tracking system; Computer vision; Computerized monitoring; Data mining; Hardware; Layout; Motion analysis; Road vehicles; Traffic control; Turning; Vehicle detection;
Conference_Titel :
Image Analysis and Processing, 1999. Proceedings. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Venice
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0040-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICIAP.1999.797665