The document describes an optical traffic monitoring system being developed by researchers at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The system uses cameras installed at multiple locations to track objects in traffic flow and automatically generate traffic data in real-time. It aims to overcome limitations of existing induction loop and floating car data systems. The integrated system includes cameras, an image acquisition system, hardware-based image processing unit, and processing software. Researchers are developing algorithms to characterize traffic patterns using sensors, fusion of visual and infrared data, and analyzing traffic flow areas. The goal is a continuously reliable system for monitoring traffic at intersections and along roads.
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The document describes an optical traffic monitoring system being developed by researchers at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The system uses cameras installed at multiple locations to track objects in traffic flow and automatically generate traffic data in real-time. It aims to overcome limitations of existing induction loop and floating car data systems. The integrated system includes cameras, an image acquisition system, hardware-based image processing unit, and processing software. Researchers are developing algorithms to characterize traffic patterns using sensors, fusion of visual and infrared data, and analyzing traffic flow areas. The goal is a continuously reliable system for monitoring traffic at intersections and along roads.
The document describes an optical traffic monitoring system being developed by researchers at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The system uses cameras installed at multiple locations to track objects in traffic flow and automatically generate traffic data in real-time. It aims to overcome limitations of existing induction loop and floating car data systems. The integrated system includes cameras, an image acquisition system, hardware-based image processing unit, and processing software. Researchers are developing algorithms to characterize traffic patterns using sensors, fusion of visual and infrared data, and analyzing traffic flow areas. The goal is a continuously reliable system for monitoring traffic at intersections and along roads.
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TRAFFIC MONITORING: Optical
sensing system improves traffic-
flow evaluation
By SHRUTHI KOMAL GUDIPATI Why Optical Systems? • Traffic-data measurement systems often used today are induction loops embedded in the pavement and the so-called floating- car-data technique
• Optical systems can overcome these
limitations
2 Continued. . . • The variety of optical sensors offers greater flexibility in system development and application
• several cameras can be installed at
multiple locations to compensate for occlusions
3 Continued. . . • able to observe and analyze local and wide-area traffic and automatically generate traffic data
• image sequences acquired by these
systems can be used to track all the objects that take part in the traffic flow
4 The Institute of Computer Science at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany)
• testing an integrated optical system for
image analysis in traffic monitoring in conjunction with the German Aerospace Center
5 Their Goal
• develop algorithms for characterizing
traffic patterns that can be implemented in programmable logic arrays or in digital signal processors in the camera system itself to support real-time signal processing
6 System Requirements
• be able to acquire and evaluate traffic
image sequences at intersections and along lanes or roads
• has to work continuously and reliably
• sensor-data fusion 7 Hardware and software components
• mechanical and optical components, an
image-acquisition system, a hardware- based image-processing unit, and image- processing software implemented in a standard microprocessor
8 An integrated optical system
9 Components of the system • mechanical and optical components
• an image-acquisition system
• a hardware-based image-processing unit
• an image-processing software implemented in a standard microprocessor 10 FPGA • a high degree of parallelism
• a flexible structure
• low clock frequency
• low power loss
11 Sensor-data fusion • Need to know the spatial relationship between the camera sensors
• One kind of fusion -- RANSAC or Random
Sample Consensus
• Another approach involves augmenting the VIS
spectral range of observation by adding a thermal-infrared (TIR) sensor to the system 12 Using epipolar geometry. . .
13 14 Another Problem • the issue of calculating amounts for characterizing traffic flow--the so-called "traffic active area."
• invisible routes that are the optimal
connections between their points of interest, subconsciously chosen in the same way by most individuals 15 Movement of pedestrians
16 REFERENCES • 1. R.D. Kühne, R.-P. Schäfer, J. Mikat, K.-U. Thiessenhusen, U. Böttger, and S. Lorkowski, Proc. 10th IFAC (Int'l. Fed. of Automatic Control) Symp. on Control in Transportation Systems, Tokyo, Japan (2003). 2. S. Lorkowski, P. Mieth, R.-P. Schäfer, CTRI Young Researcher Seminar, Den Haag (NL), Nov. 11-13, 2005. 3. Xilinx Corp. www.xilinx.com/publications/xcellonline/partners/xc_pdf/xc_nuvation43.pdf. 2005 4. Z. Zhang, Int'l. J. Computer Vision 27, 2, 161, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston (1998). • BEATE MEFFERT is head of the signal-processing and pattern-recognition group at the Institute of Computer Science, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin; ROMAN BLASCHEK and UWE KNAUER are graduate students at Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany; e-mail [email protected].
