NDLI: Rear lamp based vehicle detection and tracking for complex traffic conditions

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Ye Li Qingming Yao
Copyright Year	2012
Description	Author affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Management and Control for Complex Systems, Beijing Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Systems and Technology, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (Ye Li; Qingming Yao)
Abstract	In video surveillance system, detection and tracking of vehicles are two foundational and significant tasks. In this paper, a vehicle detection and tracking method based on rear lamp pairs is proposed. The proposed method combines color with motion information to perform vehicle detection. In order to adapt to different weather conditions like night, the rear lamps are divided into two categories: unlit lamps and lighted lamps. First, threshold segmentation are used to extract both the unlit and lighted lamp candidates in hue-saturation-value (HSV) color space and the thresholds are selected automatically by maximally stable extremal region (MSER) method. Then, all lamp candidates are tracked by using Kalman filter and lamp candidates with short-lived trajectories are removed to avoid disturbances. Next, two adjacent lamp candidates with similar speed are bound together as a region of interest (ROI), which represents a potential pair of lamps. Image cross-correlation symmetry analysis based on Gabor filter is utilized to find the ROIs with symmetrical texture and these symmetric ROIs can be regarded as pairs of lamps. The experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively deal with various illumination conditions and improve the accuracy and robustness of vehicle detection. In addition, this method can perform vehicle detection and tracking under complex traffic conditions and the Gabor filter based symmetry analysis can successfully suppress subtle difference between the left and right parts of a vehicle as well as environment noises.
Starting Page	387
Ending Page	392
File Size	557164
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781467303880
e-ISBN	9781467303903
DOI	10.1109/ICNSC.2012.6204950
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-04-11
Publisher Place	China
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Vehicles Image color analysis Vehicle detection Gabor filters Correlation Tracking Kalman filters image cross correlation vehicle detection HSV MSER Gabor filter
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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