Video Based Image Analysis for Tunnel Safety - VITUS-1: A Tunnel Video Surveillance and Traffic Control System

Controlling traffic tunnels is a complex task which imposes serious requirements. Tunnel safety depends largely on alerting motorists and tunnel personnel of a traffic incident in a timely manner. Such an alert must be based on a reliable and complete monitoring of tunnel activities. Highway tunnels are already equipped with basic video systems mainly for supervising by tunnel stuff and guidance of emergency activities. Effective incident management completely depends on fast incident detection and fast incident verification. Due to the huge amount of information provided by video systems, image analysis might help human operators to detect unexpected events and prevent dangerous situations. This paper summarizes our present study called VITUS-1. The feasibility study VITUS-1 defines a concept mainly based on digital video image analysis in order to accomplish the following tasks: (1) automatically recognizing alarm situations in road tunnels; (2) alerting the tunnel personnel and � if necessary � the road users; and (3) automatic storage of traffic incident video sequences.

• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

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  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • Schwabach, H
  • Harrer, M
  • Holzmann, W
  • Bischof, H
  • Domínguez, G Fernández
  • Nölle, M
  • Pflugfelder, R P
  • Strobl, B
  • Tacke, A
  • Waltl, A
• Conference:
  • 12th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems
  • Location: San Francisco California, United States
  • Date: 2005-11-6 to 2005-11-10
• Publication Date: 2005

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: CD-ROM; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 12p
• Monograph Title: Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Electronics; Emergency response time; Feasibility analysis; Image processing; Safety; Software packages; Surveillance; Traffic control; Traffic flow; Traffic surveillance; Tunnels; Video cameras; Vision
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01015787
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 24 2006 1:33PM