A Video based Vehicle Detection, Counting and Classification System

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Author(s)

Sheeraz Memon 1,* Sania Bhatti 2 Liaquat A. Thebo 1 Mir Muhammad B. Talpur 1 Mohsin A. Memon 2

1. Department of Computer System Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan.

2. Department of Software Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan

* Corresponding author.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2018.09.05

Received: 25 May 2018 / Revised: 14 Jun. 2018 / Accepted: 3 Jul. 2018 / Published: 8 Sep. 2018

Index Terms

Video surveillance, detection, video classification, Gaussian Mixture Model, Bag of Features, Support Vector Machine

Abstract

Traffic Analysis has been a problem that city planners have dealt with for years. Smarter ways are being developed to analyze traffic and streamline the process. Analysis of traffic may account for the number of vehicles in an area per some arbitrary time period and the class of vehicles. People have designed such mechanism for decades now but most of them involve use of sensors to detect the vehicles i.e. a couple of proximity sensors to calculate the direction of the moving vehicle and to keep the vehicle count. Even though over the time these systems have matured and are highly effective, they are not very budget friendly. The problem is such systems require maintenance and periodic calibration. Therefore, this study has purposed a vision based vehicle counting and classification system. The system involves capturing of frames from the video to perform background subtraction in order detect and count the vehicles using Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) background subtraction then it classifies the vehicles by comparing the contour areas to the assumed values. The substantial contribution of the work is the comparison of two classification methods. Classification has been implemented using Contour Comparison (CC) as well as Bag of Features (BoF) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) method. 

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Sheeraz Memon, Sania Bhatti, Liaquat A. Thebo, Mir Muhammad B. Talpur, Mohsin A. Memon, " A Video based Vehicle Detection, Counting and Classification System", International Journal of Image, Graphics and Signal Processing(IJIGSP), Vol.10, No.9, pp. 34-41, 2018. DOI: 10.5815/ijigsp.2018.09.05

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