Feature-Based Stereo Vision Using Smart Cameras for Traffic Surveillance

  • Authors:
  • Quentin Houben;Jacek Czyz;Juan Carlos Tocino Diaz;Olivier Debeir;Nadine Warzee

  • Affiliations:
  • LISA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium CP165/57;Macq Electronique S.A., Brussels, Belgium 1140;LISA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium CP165/57;LISA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium CP165/57;LISA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium CP165/57

  • Venue:
  • ICVS '09 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems: Computer Vision Systems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper presents a stereo-based system for measuring traffic on motorways. To achieve real-time performance, the system exploits a decentralized architecture composed of a pair of smart cameras fixed over the road and connected via network to an embedded industrial PC on the side of the road. Different features (Harris corners and edges) are detected on the two images and matched together with local matching algorithm. The resulting 3D points cloud is processed by maximum spanning tree clustering algorithm to group the points into vehicle objects. Bounding boxes are defined for each detected object, giving an approximation of the vehicles 3D sizes. The system presented here has been validated manually and gives over 90% of good detection accuracy at 20-25 frames/s.