Night Time Vehicle Detection and Tracking by Fusing Sensor Cues from Autonomous Vehicles

Author(s):  
Xinxiang Zhang ◽  
Brett Story ◽  
Dinesh Rajan
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 1622-1624

With the invention of autonomous vehicles, it make easier to know about the future directions of the vehicles. The main purposes of vehicle detection and tracking are to identify the on-road traffic conditions, hazards or hurts as well as to communicate with other on-road vehicles/objects. To meet the above requirements, the following methodologies are useful which are like Fuzzy based, Radar and V2V fusion, Background subtraction, Active contour, Single learning based method and etc., Those methodologies are implementing either independently or collaboratively may lead to focus towards not only on the vehicles and other objects of our interest. In order to track the vehicles, first to detect the various objects and from them only it is possible to identify the vehicle objects. After the identification of vehicular objects, we can segregate them according to their sub-category. In this paper, various object/vehicle detection techniques have been discussed. The process of segmentation and separation of vehicle objects and its types can be possible by implementing a certain fuzzy rules. Detection of an object using various fusion techniques makes more effective in terms of obtaining the information regarding that particular vehicle directly or via nearby vehicles. While capturing the object, there is a possibility of false detection. This can be avoided by clearly eliminating the shadows, illumination and etc., from capturing object image. This kind of elimination process is termed as background subtraction. Active contour is one another detection method which gives us succession of images from which the internal and external borders of several objects can be identified. By a single extraction various objects are identified and then given to different detectors according to their sub-category. All these kind of techniques are discussed in this paper.


Author(s):  
Adhi Prahara ◽  
Ahmad Azhari ◽  
Murinto Murinto

Vehicle has several types and each of them has different color, size, and shape. The appearance of vehicle also changes if viewed from different viewpoint of traffic surveillance camera. This situation can create many possibilities of vehicle poses. However, the one in common, vehicle pose usually follows road direction. Therefore, this research proposes a method to estimate the pose of vehicle for vehicle detection and tracking based on road direction. Vehicle training data are generated from 3D vehicle models in four-pair orientation categories. Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) and Linear-Support Vector Machine (Linear-SVM) are used to build vehicle detectors from the data. Road area is extracted from traffic surveillance image to localize the detection area. The pose of vehicle which estimated based on road direction will be used to select a suitable vehicle detector for vehicle detection process. To obtain the final vehicle object, vehicle line checking method is applied to the vehicle detection result. Finally, vehicle tracking is performed to give label on each vehicle. The test conducted on various viewpoints of traffic surveillance camera shows that the method effectively detects and tracks vehicle by estimating the pose of vehicle. Performance evaluation of the proposed method shows 0.9170 of accuracy and 0.9161 of balance accuracy (BAC).


2003 ◽  
Vol 1855 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. P. Hoogendoorn ◽  
H. J. Van Zuylen ◽  
M. Schreuder ◽  
B. Gorte ◽  
G. Vosselman

To gain insight into the behavior of drivers during congestion, and to develop and test theories and models that describe congested driving behavior, very detailed data are needed. A new data-collection system prototype is described for determining individual vehicle trajectories from sequences of digital aerial images. Software was developed to detect and track vehicles from image sequences. In addition to longitudinal and lateral position as a function of time, the system can determine vehicle length and width. Before vehicle detection and tracking can be achieved, the software handles correction for lens distortion, radiometric correction, and orthorectification of the image. The software was tested on data collected from a helicopter by a digital camera that gathered high-resolution monochrome images, covering 280 m of a Dutch motorway. From the test, it was concluded that the techniques for analyzing the digital images can be applied automatically without much problem. However, given the limited stability of the helicopter, only 210 m of the motorway could be used for vehicle detection and tracking. The resolution of the data collection was 22 cm. Weather conditions appear to have a significant influence on the reliability of the data: 98% of the vehicles could be detected and tracked automatically when conditions were good; this number dropped to 90% when the weather conditions worsened. Equipment for stabilizing the camera—gyroscopic mounting—and the use of color images can be applied to further improve the system.


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