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Hand detection is an important issue in the analysis of drivers activities, assessment of drivers alertness, and subsequent development of driver safety monitoring system. In this work, the hand detection problem is addressed in the deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) framework. Hypothesis of hand regions are first generated with high recall rate by AdaBoost detector associated with Aggregated...
Fast object detection is the most important part of the unmanned surface vehicles (USV) which make it possible for the USV to avoid the obstacle automatically and navigate autonomously. So, it is necessary to find a fast and accurate object detection method. In practice, the significant difficulty is that the environment is quite complicated which make the object uncertain. The obstacle may be a person,...
Road safety is influenced by the adequate placement of traffic signs. As the visibility of road signs degrades over time due to e.g. aging, vandalism or vegetation coverage, sign maintenance is required to preserve a high road safety. This is commonly performed based on inventories of traffic signs, which should be conducted periodically, as road situations may change and the visibility of signs degrades...
This paper presents the development of a first approach to a vision-based target detection. The ultimate objective of this work is to position an autonomous surface vehicle relative to a target. Experiments in a controlled indoor environment were conducted to test the developed system. The experimental results are analyzed and show that the tracking performances achieve errors in the order of a few...
Background subtraction is a method typically used to segment moving regions in image sequences taken from a static camera by comparing each new frame with a model of the background scene. This paper proposes a novel fuzzy background subtraction algorithm for moving vehicle detection which achieves the high detection rates, and reduces the influence of illumination changes and shadows in the traffic...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are among the fast growing remote sensing technologies in these last few years. This is mainly because UAVs allow acquiring images characterized by an extremely high spatial resolution and they exhibit an interesting operational flexibility. Taking advantage from these unique characteristics can help in addressing problems typical of the civilian contexts. In particular,...
Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) are used for assisting the drivers by providing advice and warnings when necessary. CTA (Cross Traffic Alert) systems are a subset of ADAS used for detecting objects (viz., cars, trucks, pedestrians, static objects etc) by using one or more moving cameras, mounted on a vehicle. Usually, CTA systems can detect moving objects within region of interest (ROI)...
Traffic flow detection plays an important role in Intelligent Transportation Systems(ITS). Video based traffic flow detection system is the most widely used strategy in ITS. Under this circumstance, we design and implement a video based traffic flow detection system which is called MyTD in this paper. MyTD takes advantages of both shadow removal and optical flow algorithms. Firstly, we introduce the...
Moving vehicle detection in digital image sequences is one of the key technologies of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Traffic Surveillance System is being more and important with the enlarging of urban scale and increasing number of vehicles. This Paper presents an intelligent vehicle counting method based on blob analysis in traffic surveillance. The algorithm is composed of moving object...
Car license plate detection is a basic task in ITS. A MSER license plate detection method is proposed in the paper constrained by some priori knowledges of license plate. First the input image is pre-processed with grayscaling and gray stretching, etc, and then, the candidate MSER(Maximally Stable Extremal Region) license plate regions are chosen according to the pixel sum, the scale and length-width...
In this paper, we address the problem of vehicle detection and tracking with low-angle cameras by combining windshield detection and feature points clustering, effectively fusing several primitive image features such as color, edge and interest point. By exploring various heterogenous features and multiple vehicle models, we achieve at least two improvements over the existing methods: higher detection...
In multiple moving object detection, the connection between objects and shadow always leads to the failure of object detection. To solve this problem, a new object extraction algorithm using level set is proposed and applied to detect moving vehicle in intelligent monitoring of motorway. Moving information is extracted via symmetrical difference and used in the velocity function of level set. After...
In order to eliminate vehicle shadow in moving vehicle detection, a novel vehicle shadow elimination approach is presented based on mark growing of multi-feature fusion. The selection of mark points and the establishment of growing rules are critical. Firstly, background model is obtained by mixture Gaussian method. Then gradient difference of foreground and background is calculated. Morphological...
In this paper we propose a multi sensor tracking method. Tracking is done independently for each view. Fusing several cues including color, edge, texture and motion constrained by structure of environment is used in a novel way. Fusion of features in particle filter framework helps to achieve an accurate tracking algorithm in single view. The results of individual image planes are projected to the...
In this paper, we propose a system that automatically detects and recognizes road signs found in the United States, in real time or close to real-time. The proposed system has application to intelligent autonomous unmanned vehicles for urban surveillance and rescue. It is a multi-layered hierarchical scheme composed of 3 parts: road sign color segmentation, shape recognition, and classification. The...
Moving cast shadow detection of vehicle is important to vehicle detection and tracking. In this paper, a novel moving cast shadow detection approach using combined color models is proposed. Firstly, the ratio of hue over intensity in HSI color model is used to detect the bright object pixels in foreground regions. Secondly, we employ the theory of photometric color invariants in C1C2C3 color model...
The vehicle shadow's detection and elimination work basically for extracting and tracking the vehicle characteristics, and it also plays a very important role in highway video surveillance and incident detection, affecting the post-processing of video image directly, such as vehicle tracking and speed measurement. On study of Kimmel variational and multi-scale Retinex algorithm to eliminate the vehicle...
In order to reduce accident at traffic intersections during day and night, the algorithm of traffic lights detection which is applied in a vehicle driver assistance system is designed by using the image processing technology. The system of traffic light detection includes three parts: a CCD camera, an image acquisition card, and a PC. Based on RGB color space, the algorithm extracts red, green, and...
Event detection is an important research in video surveillance technology. This paper proposed a method for traffic event detection based on visual Mechanism on the background of traffic video surveillance applications. In this method, based on the extraction of video target motion characteristics, it extracted abnormal targets mainly through the features merging and significant competitive in video...
Moving objects detection is one basic problem in computer vision and various methods have been proposed. However, the performance of these methods may be deteriorated by the moving shadows. In this paper we present a novel method for the moving shadow detection. Based on the analysis of the illumination model, we prove that the normalized eigenvalue of image block is illumination invariant. The distribution...
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