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Video surveillance has significant application prospects such as security, law enforcement, and traffic monitoring. Visual traffic surveillance using computer vision techniques can be non-invasive, cost effective and automated. Detecting and recognizing the objects in a video is an important part of many video surveillance systems which can help in tracking of the detected objects and gathering important information. In case of traffic video surveillance, vehicle detection and classification is important as it can help in traffic control and gathering of traffic statistics that can be used in intelligent transportation systems. Vehicle classification poses a difficult problem as vehicles have high intra class variation and relatively low inter class variation. In this work, we investigate five different object recognition techniques: PCA+DFVS, PCA+DIVS, PCA+SVM, LDA, and constellation based modeling applied to the problem of vehicle classification. We also compare them with the state-of-the-art techniques in vehicle classification. In case of the PCA based approaches, we extend face detection using a PCA approach for the problem of vehicle classification to carry out multi-class classification. We also implement constellation model-based approach that uses the dense representation of SIFT features. We consider three classes: sedans, vans, and taxis and record classification accuracy as high as 99.25% in case of cars vs vans and 97.57% in case of sedans vs taxis . We also present a fusion approach that uses both PCA+DFVS and PCA+DIVS and achieves classification accuracy of 96.42% in case of sedans vs vans vs taxis. We incorporated three of the techniques that performed well into a unified traffic surveillance system for online classification of vehicles which uses tracking results to improve the classification accuracy. We processed 31 minutes of traffic video containing multi-lane traffic intersection to evaluate the accuracy of the system. We were able to achieve classification accuracy as high as 90.49% while classifying correctly tracked vehicles into four classes: Cars, SUVs/Vans, Pickup Trucks, and Buses/Semis . While processing a video, our system also records important traffic parameters such as color of a vehicle, speed of a vehicle, etc. This information was later used in a search assistant tool (SAT) to find interesting traffic events. For the evaluation of video surveillance applications that employ an object classification module, it is important to establish the ground truth. However, it is a time consuming process when done manually. We developed a ground truth verification tool (GTVT) that can help in this process by automating some of the work.
Search and Classification Using Multiple Autonomous Vehicles provides a comprehensive study of decision-making strategies for domain search and object classification using multiple autonomous vehicles (MAV) under both deterministic and probabilistic frameworks. It serves as a first discussion of the problem of effective resource allocation using MAV with sensing limitations, i.e., for search and classification missions over large-scale domains, or when there are far more objects to be found and classified than there are autonomous vehicles available. Under such scenarios, search and classification compete for limited sensing resources. This is because search requires vehicle mobility while classification restricts the vehicles to the vicinity of any objects found. The authors develop decision-making strategies to choose between these competing tasks and vehicle-motion-control laws to achieve the proposed management scheme. Deterministic Lyapunov-based, probabilistic Bayesian-based, and risk-based decision-making strategies and sensor-management schemes are created in sequence. Modeling and analysis include rigorous mathematical proofs of the proposed theorems and the practical consideration of limited sensing resources and observation costs. A survey of the well-developed coverage control problem is also provided as a foundation of search algorithms within the overall decision-making strategies. Applications in both underwater sampling and space-situational awareness are investigated in detail. The control strategies proposed in each chapter are followed by illustrative simulation results and analysis. Academic researchers and graduate students from aerospace, robotics, mechanical or electrical engineering backgrounds interested in multi-agent coordination and control, in detection and estimation or in Bayes filtration will find this text of interest.
This report presents a methodology for extracting two vehicle features, vehicle length and number of axles in order to classify the vehicles from video, based on Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA's) recommended vehicle classification scheme. There are two stages regarding this classification. The first stage is the general classification that basically classifies vehicles into 4 categories or bins based on the vehicle length (i.e., 4-Bin length-based vehicle classification). The second stage is the axle-based group classification that classifies vehicles in more detailed classes of vehicles such as car, van, buses, based on the number of axles. The Rapid Video-based Vehicle Identification System (RVIS) model is developed based on image processing technique to enable identifying the number of vehicle axles. Also, it is capable of tackling group classification of vehicles that are defined by axles and vehicle length based on the FHWA's vehicle classification scheme and standard lengths of 13 categorized vehicles. The RVIS model is tested with sample video data obtained on a segment of I-275 in the Cincinnati area, Ohio. The evaluation result shows a better 4-Bin length-based classification than the axle-based group classification. There may be two reasons. First, when a vehicle gets misclassified in 4-Bin classification, it will definitely be misclassified in axle-based group classification. The error of the 4-Bin classification will propagate to the axle-based group classification. Second, there may be some noises in the process of finding the tires and number of tires. The project result provides solid basis for integrating the RVIS that is particularly applicable to light traffic condition and the Vehicle Video-Capture Data Collector (VEVID), a semi-automatic tool to be particularly applicable to heavy traffic conditions, into a "hybrid" system in the future. Detailed framework and operation scheme for such an integration effort is provided in the project report.
This book provides cutting-edge insights into autonomous vehicles and road terrain classification, and introduces a more rational and practical method for identifying road terrain. It presents the MRF algorithm, which combines the various sensors’ classification results to improve the forward LRF for predicting upcoming road terrain types. The comparison between the predicting LRF and its corresponding MRF show that the MRF multiple-sensor fusion method is extremely robust and effective in terms of classifying road terrain. The book also demonstrates numerous applications of road terrain classification for various environments and types of autonomous vehicle, and includes abundant illustrations and models to make the comparison tables and figures more accessible.
The work presented in this dissertation provides a framework for object detection,tracking and vehicle classification in urban environment. The final aim is to produce a system for traffic flow statistics analysis. Based on level set methods and a multi-phase colour model, a general variational formulation which combines Minkowski-form distance L2 and L3 of each channel and their homogenous regions in the index is defined. The active segmentation method successfully finds whole object boundaries which include different known colours, even in very complex background situations, rather than splitting an object into several regions with different colours. For video data supplied by a nominally stationary camera, an adaptive Gaussian mixture model (GMM), with a multi-dimensional Gaussian kernel spatio-temporal smoothing transform, has been used for modeling the distribution of colour image data. The algorithm improves the segmentation performance in adverse imaging conditions. A self-adaptive Gaussian mixture model, with an online dynamical learning rate and global illumination changing factor, is proposed to address the problem of sudden change in illumination. The effectiveness of a state-of-the-art classification algorithm to categorise road vehicles for an urban traffic monitoring system using a set of measurement-based feature (BMF) and a multi-shape descriptor is investigated. Manual vehicle segmentation was used to acquire a large database of labeled vehicles form a set of MBF in combination with pyramid histogram of orientation gradient (PHOG) and edge-based PHOG features. These are used to classify the objects into four main vehicle categories: car, van (van, minivan, minibus and limousine), bus (single and double decked) and motorcycle (motorcycle and bicycle). Then, an automatic system for vehicle detection, tracking and classification from roadside CCTV is presented. The system counts vehicles and separates them into the four categories mentioned above. The GMM and shadow removal method have been used to deal with sudden illumination changes and camera vibration. A Kalman filter tracks a vehicle to enable classification by majority voting over several consecutive frames, and a level set method has been used to refine the foreground blob. Finally, a framework for confidence based active learning for vehicle classification in an urban traffic environment is presented. Only a small number of low confidence samples need to be identified and annotated according to their confidence. Compared to passive learning, the number of annotated samples needed for the training dataset can be reduced significantly, yielding a high accuracy classifier with low computational complexity and high efficiency.
This report presents a framework for measuring safety in automated vehicles (AVs): how to define safety for AVs, how to measure safety for AVs, and how to communicate what is learned or understood about AVs.
This report presents algorithms for vision-based detection and classification of vehicles in modeled at rectangular patches with certain dynamic behavior. The proposed method is based on the establishment of correspondences among blobs and vehicles, as the vehicles move through the image sequence. The system can classify vehicles into two categories, trucks and non-tucks, based on the dimensions of the vehicles. In addition to the category of each vehicle, the system calculates the velocities of the vehicles and generates counts of vehicles in each lane over a user-specified time interval, the total count of each type of vehicle, and the average velocity of each lane during this interval.