TY - GEN
T1 - Vehicle detection and counting by using headlight information in the dark environment
AU - Chen, Thou Ho
AU - Chen, Jun Liang
AU - Chen, Chin-Hsing
AU - Chang, Chao Ming
PY - 2007/12/1
Y1 - 2007/12/1
N2 - This paper is dedicated to detecting and counting vehicles in dark (nighttime) environment by using headlight information. The basic idea is to use variation ratio in color space to detect the ground-illumination resulted from the head-lighting of vehicle. Then, headlight classification provides the headlight information for determining the moving-object region and compensating pixels, which are wrongly classified as ground-illumination, back to the object mask. Besides, shadow is possibly detected by prediction rules and then excluded for deriving better results of vehicle segmentation and counting. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can detect vehicles and reduce both effects of ground-illumination and shadow. In the normal condition (non-crowding), the average accuracy can be raised near to 90%.
AB - This paper is dedicated to detecting and counting vehicles in dark (nighttime) environment by using headlight information. The basic idea is to use variation ratio in color space to detect the ground-illumination resulted from the head-lighting of vehicle. Then, headlight classification provides the headlight information for determining the moving-object region and compensating pixels, which are wrongly classified as ground-illumination, back to the object mask. Besides, shadow is possibly detected by prediction rules and then excluded for deriving better results of vehicle segmentation and counting. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can detect vehicles and reduce both effects of ground-illumination and shadow. In the normal condition (non-crowding), the average accuracy can be raised near to 90%.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/47349084644
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/47349084644#tab=citedBy
U2 - 10.1109/IIH-MSP.2007.321
DO - 10.1109/IIH-MSP.2007.321
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:47349084644
SN - 0769529941
SN - 9780769529943
T3 - Proceedings - 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, IIHMSP 2007.
SP - 519
EP - 522
BT - Proceedings - 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, IIHMSP 2007.
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, IIHMSP 2007
Y2 - 26 November 2007 through 28 November 2007
ER -