A VISION SHARED : THE BEST SOLUTION FOR VEHICLE DETECTION ... : WHAT EXACTLY IS SVS?

This article describes the advantages and disadvantages of video detectors as a substitute for inductive loop detectors (ILD) for vehicle detection. ILD have the disadvantage of costly installation and maintenance, while video detectors offer unstable performance under certain adverse conditions and, in addition, require heuristic knowledge of image processing or field experience. The author writes that Omron Corporation in Japan has found a solution to those problems by developing a stereovision-based vehicle video detector called the Silhouette Vision Sensor (SVS). Compared to the typical, monocular video detectors, field tests in California with SVS show 98 percent or better vehicle detection accuracy rates, even under adverse conditions. In addition the system is easy to use, which cuts costs.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Publication Date: 2003
• Corporate Authors:

  Colorado Department of Transportation

  4201 E Arkansas Avenue
  Denver, CO  United States  80222
• Authors:
  • Wu, Yue
  • Yoshinobu, Asokawa
  • Kimachi, Masatoshi
• Publication Date: 2003

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 140-144
• Serial:
  • Traffic technology international : the 2003 international review of advanced traffic management
  • Publisher: Colorado Department of Transportation
  • ISSN: 1356-9252

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Image processing; Vehicle detectors

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00973197
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: PATH, STATEDOT
• Created Date: May 4 2004 12:00AM