MULTI-FEATURE STEREO VISION SYSTEM FOR ROAD TRAFFIC ANALYSIS

Quentin Houben, Juan Carlos Tocino Diaz, Nadine Warzée, Olivier Debeir, Jacek Czyz

2009

Abstract

This paper presents a method for counting and classifying vehicles on motorway. The system is based on a multi-camera system fixed over the road. Different features (maximum phase congruency and edges) are detected on the two images and matched together with local matching algorithm. The resulting 3D points cloud is processed by maximum spanning tree clustering algorithm to group the points into vehicle objects. Bounding boxes are defined for each detected object, giving an approximation of the vehicles 3D sizes. A complementary 2D quadrilateral detector has been developed to enhance the probability of matching features on vehicle exhibiting little texture such as long vehicles. The algorithm presented here was validated manually and gives 90% of good detection accuracy.

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Houben Q., Carlos Tocino Diaz J., Warzée N., Debeir O. and Czyz J. (2009). MULTI-FEATURE STEREO VISION SYSTEM FOR ROAD TRAFFIC ANALYSIS . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111-69-2, pages 554-559. DOI: 10.5220/0001803405540559


in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp09,
author={Quentin Houben and Juan Carlos Tocino Diaz and Nadine Warzée and Olivier Debeir and Jacek Czyz},
title={MULTI-FEATURE STEREO VISION SYSTEM FOR ROAD TRAFFIC ANALYSIS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={554-559},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001803405540559},
isbn={978-989-8111-69-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)
TI - MULTI-FEATURE STEREO VISION SYSTEM FOR ROAD TRAFFIC ANALYSIS
SN - 978-989-8111-69-2
AU - Houben Q.
AU - Carlos Tocino Diaz J.
AU - Warzée N.
AU - Debeir O.
AU - Czyz J.
PY - 2009
SP - 554
EP - 559
DO - 10.5220/0001803405540559