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Real-time detection of vehicles for advanced traffic signal control

  • Chong Han*
  • , Qinyu Zhang
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen

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Abstract

Vehicle detection by video cameras is one of the most promising new technologies for wireless large-scale data collection and implementation of advanced traffic control and management schemes such as vehicle guidance/navigation. In this paper we propose an approach to detect and count vehicles at an intersection in real-time, using a fixed camera. After identifying moving objects images via background frame differencing, edge detection, erosion and dilation operations are performed to suppress noise. Separated and rotated properly, the denoised binary image is then used to generate a vertical projection histogram from which information about the size and coordinates of each component is utilized to compute the number of vehicles. This detection algorithm gives an approximate number of vehicles. An adaptive traffic signal control strategy controls the traffic flow. The simulating results show a great efficiency of traffic control and management scheme in practice.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Computer and Electrical Engineering, ICCEE 2008
Pages245-249
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes
Event2008 International Conference on Computer and Electrical Engineering, ICCEE 2008 - Phuket, Thailand
Duration: 20 Dec 200822 Dec 2008

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Computer and Electrical Engineering, ICCEE 2008

Conference

Conference2008 International Conference on Computer and Electrical Engineering, ICCEE 2008
Country/TerritoryThailand
CityPhuket
Period20/12/0822/12/08

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