scholarly journals Computer Vision Techniques for Background Modeling in Urban Traffic Monitoring

10.5772/10179 ◽  
2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Manuel ◽  
Sergio Luis ◽  
Manuel Vargas ◽  
Federico Barrero
Keyword(s):  
Computer Vision ◽  
Traffic Monitoring ◽  
Background Modeling ◽  
Urban Traffic

Traffic Monitoring and Congestion Management in the SCOOT Urban Traffic Control System

1998 ◽  
Vol 1634 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Bretherton ◽  
Keith Wood ◽  
Neil Raha
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Detection System ◽  
Congestion Management ◽  
Traffic Monitoring ◽  
Urban Traffic ◽  
Incident Detection ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Traffic Control System ◽  
Urban Traffic Control

The SCOOT Urban Traffic Control system is now operating in over 170 cities worldwide, including 7 systems in North America. Since the first system was installed, there has been a continuous program of research and development to provide new facilities to meet the requirement of the traffic manager. The latest version of SCOOT (Version 3.1) incorporates a traffic information database, ASTRID, and an incident-detection system, INGRID, and provides a number of facilities for congestion control. The traffic monitoring facilities of SCOOT, including a new facility to estimate emissions from vehicles, and the current program of work to enhance the incident-detection system and to provide additional facilities to manage incidents and congestion are reported in this paper. The work is being carried out as part of the European Union, DGXIII 4th Framework project, COSMOS, with additional funding from the UK Department of Transport. The enhanced system is to be installed in the Kingston Borough of London, where it will be tested in combination with congestion warning information provided by variable message signs.

Review on Image Representation Compression and Retrieval Approaches

2019 ◽  
pp. 203-231
Author(s):  
Lalit B. Damahe ◽  
Nileshsingh V. Thakur
Keyword(s):  
Computer Vision ◽  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Personal Computer ◽  
Compression Ratio ◽  
Image Representation ◽  
Traffic Monitoring ◽  
Time Compression ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
And Storage ◽  
Evaluation Parameters

Image representation and compression is one of the important fields of computer vision that contribute to the reduction of size of an image and other types of application areas such as image restoration, retrieval, etc. Image representation is important with respect to storage of image information, and it further extends to the compression, which may be lossy or lossless. Image compression can be applied to various applications which mainly include medical imaging, traffic monitoring, military, multimedia transmission, smart cell devices, and almost in all the domains that require less transmission and storage cost, specifically image retrieval processing. This chapter presents the various image representation compression and retrieval approaches. The retrieval approaches on personal computer and smart cell devices are discussed. Finally, the key issues are identified for image representation compression and retrieval on the basis of performance evaluation parameters like encoding time, decoding time, compression ratio, precision, recall, and elapsed time.

scholarly journals Intelligent Video Surveillance Technology in Intelligent Transportation

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Fangcheng He
Keyword(s):  
Video Surveillance ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Intelligent Transportation ◽  
Traffic Monitoring ◽  
Motion Blur ◽  
Urban Traffic ◽  
Technology Research ◽  
Monitoring Technology ◽  
Intelligent Video Surveillance ◽  
Surveillance Technology

Along with the strength of the country’s overall strength, the people’s pockets have become more and more popular, and there have been significant improvements in all aspects of life, especially in terms of travel methods. This reflects the increase in residents’ income, but it also brings huge traffic pressure. In the long run, traffic congestion is not only detrimental to urban development, but frequent traffic accidents threaten residents’ travel safety. Effective monitoring methods are essential to solving these problems, so it is necessary to carry out research on intelligent video monitoring technology in intelligent transportation. The purpose of this article is to solve the current situation of excessive traffic pressure in the city. Through the study of intelligent video surveillance technology in intelligent traffic, the use of constrained least squares algorithm to remove motion blur and apply Kalan filtering to the sharpening process is used to eliminate noise ambiguity and make a brief introduction to various classic moving target detection methods to realize real-time monitoring of intelligent traffic conditions and continuously adjust and verify the monitoring situation, and then establish intelligent video in intelligent traffic monitoring technology research system. The research results show that this kind of intelligent video surveillance technology research in intelligent transportation can effectively increase the awareness of intelligent video surveillance technology and improve the level of intelligent video surveillance technology. The data measurement time has been shortened by one hour, the aggregation time has been changed from three hours to two hours, and the analysis time has been shortened by half. Eased urban traffic road pressure and greatly reduced the incidence of traffic accidents, which is conducive to socialist harmony social construction.

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