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Due to the limitation of headlights detection algorithm, obtained vehicles’ tracking trajectories are rather short in existing traffic surveillance systems. A novel vehicle tracking system is proposed in this paper to deal with nighttime traffic surveillance videos. It consists of three parts. An effective headlight detection model is firstly constructed based on the optical imaging principle, noises are then filtered out according to the field depth among the far, middle and near regions by different evaluations. Parallel perspective principle is secondly applied to remove the LED lights disturbance. The headlights are tracked and then paired according to vehicles’ type. Vehicles’ tracking is realized finally via trajectory feedback correction. Experiments are presented to show the proposed system’s superiority over several state-of-the-art methods in headlight detection, pairing and tracking.
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Tang, C., Dong, Y., Lin, X., Xiao, W. (2017). Multi-Field Depth Vehicle Headlight Detection by Model Construction and Long Trajectory Extraction in Nighttime City Traffic. In: Zeng, X., Xie, X., Sun, J., Ma, L., Chen, Y. (eds) International Symposium for Intelligent Transportation and Smart City (ITASC) 2017 Proceedings. ITASC 2017. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 62. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3575-3_24
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