Video-Based Detection and Tracking Model for Traffic Surveillance

The continuous increase of traffic congestion in urban areas demands a high reliable traffic management system for monitoring traffic flows and providing key input parameters for predicting traffic conditions. Video sequences of road scenes are increasingly used in several contexts with an emphasis on automation, notably for tracking moving objects in a static background. This paper presents a multiple-vehicle surveillance model developed using Matlab Software for detecting and tracking moving vehicles, and collecting traffic data for different lengths of region of interest (ROI), ranging between 5 and 30 m. The model was validated using simulated video scenes, designed in VISSIM with known traffic data. Measurements from model were compared with actual measurements reported by VISSIM and results confirmed exact match of vehicle counts. Statistical t-tests of mean speed differences confirmed the model validity at 5% significance level, especially with ROI length of 10 and 15 m. Validation of headway measurements was also confirmed for optimum ROI lengths. The model processes one second in video clips of frame rate 20 frames/sec in 0.96 sec. This is appropriate for real-time applications to yield traffic parameters including vehicle speed, headway, count, incident detection, queue detection, etc. However, the model was validated assuming no lane changes and no overlap of vehicles, and, hence, model validity is limited to these assumptions. It is recommended that this model be validated using real world videos containing noises such as light variation, shadows, vibrations due to wind, skewed views, lane changes, and/or trucks that obscure full view of vehicles.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABJ35 Highway Traffic Monitoring.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Al Kherret, Abdul Razak
  • Al Sobky, Al Sayed
  • Mousa, Ragab M
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
• Date: 2015

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 16p
• Monograph Title: TRB 94th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic data collection systems; Automatic vehicle detection and identification systems; Image processing; Mathematical models; Traffic data; Traffic surveillance
• Identifier Terms: MATLAB (Computer program)
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01555247
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 15-1465
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 26 2015 10:05AM