Anthony
Tzes
Polytechnic University
Urban Intelligent Transportation Systems Center
Brooklyn, NY
TRB Preprint Paper No. 971082
January 1997
The design, development, and testing of prototype wide area traffic detection system is considered in this article. The video-based sensor computes the approximate number of vehicles present within an a priori defined observation area from stand-still images. This sensor is mostly oriented towards the traffic detection in congested intersections, in which sensors using existing technology (radar, acoustic, and video-based (moving images)) are faced with critical obstacles caused by the automobile stoppage. The prototype system has been tested and found to perform satisfactorily in field studies.
key words:
wide area detection, image processing, vehicle detection, traffic sensor
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