VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM FOR SURVEILLANCE APPLICATIONS

Many surveillance applications require electronic imagers to provide real time or near real time pictures. An example might involve the security system of a sensitive facility where the monitoring of entering and exiting traffic is important. Since the objects of interest in this scenario are vehicles, it is possible to use a one-dimensional line scanner and let the vehicle self scan via its motion. The resulting image is two-dimensional with the vertical representing a spatial displacement and the horizontal time. This paper describes a self contained vehicle identification system which acquires images of moving objects, and classifies them utilizing edge extraction, shadow elimination, and Fourier Descriptors.

• Corporate Authors:

  Sandia National Laboratories

  P.O. Box 5800
  Albuquerque, NM  United States  87185
• Authors:
  • Bukaty, M E
• Publication Date: 1987

Media Info

• Pagination: 5 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic vehicle identification; Imagery; Security; Sensors; Surveillance; Vehicle classification
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Security and Emergencies; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00472835
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: SAND-86-2602C, CONF-870357-1
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 30 1987 12:00AM