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Vision-based traffic surveillance is an important topic in computer vision. In the night environment, the moving vehicles are commonly detected by their headlights. However, robust headlights detection is obstructed by the strong reflections on the road surface. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for vehicle headlights detection. Firstly, we introduce a Reflection Intensity Map based on the analysis of light attenuation model in neighboring region. Secondly, a Reflection Suppressed Map is obtained by using Laplacian of Gaussian filter. Thirdly, the headlights are detected by incorporating the gray-scale intensity, Reflection Intensity Map, and Reflection Suppressed Map into a Markov random fields framework, which is optimized using Iterated Conditional Modes algorithm. Experimental results on typical scenes show that the proposed method can detect the headlights correctly in the presence of strong reflections. Quantitative evaluations demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms the existing methods.
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Zhang, W., Wu, Q.M.J., Wang, G. (2010). Vehicle Headlights Detection Using Markov Random Fields. In: Zha, H., Taniguchi, Ri., Maybank, S. (eds) Computer Vision – ACCV 2009. ACCV 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5994. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12307-8_16
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