A CAMERA AUTO-CALIBRATION ALGORITHM FOR REALTIME ROAD TRAFFIC ANALYSIS

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

2009

Abstract

This paper presents a new mono-camera system for traffic surveillance. It uses an original algorithm to obtain automatically a calibration pattern from road lane markings. Movement detection is done with a ∑ - ∆ background estimation which is a non linear method of background substraction based on comparison and elementary increment/decrement. Foreground and calibration data obtained allow to determine vehicles speed in an efficient manner. Finally, a new method to estimate the height of vehicles is presented.

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Carlos Tocino Diaz J., Houben Q., Czyz J., Debeir O. and Warzée N. (2009). A CAMERA AUTO-CALIBRATION ALGORITHM FOR REALTIME ROAD TRAFFIC ANALYSIS . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111-69-2, pages 626-631. DOI: 10.5220/0001803906260631


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@conference{visapp09,
author={Juan Carlos Tocino Diaz and Quentin Houben and Jacek Czyz and Olivier Debeir and Nadine Warzée},
title={A CAMERA AUTO-CALIBRATION ALGORITHM FOR REALTIME ROAD TRAFFIC ANALYSIS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={626-631},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001803906260631},
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 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)
TI - A CAMERA AUTO-CALIBRATION ALGORITHM FOR REALTIME ROAD TRAFFIC ANALYSIS
SN - 978-989-8111-69-2
AU - Carlos Tocino Diaz J.
AU - Houben Q.
AU - Czyz J.
AU - Debeir O.
AU - Warzée N.
PY - 2009
SP - 626
EP - 631
DO - 10.5220/0001803906260631