Browsing by Author "Juang, Jhy-Hong"

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A New Approach to Video-Based Traffic Surveillance Using Fuzzy Hybrid Information Inference Mechanism
(2013-03-01)
Wu, Bing-Fei
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Kao, Chih-Chung
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Juang, Jhy-Hong
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Huang, Yi-Shiun
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電控工程研究所
This study proposes a new approach to video-based traffic surveillance using a fuzzy hybrid information inference mechanism (FHIIM). The three major contributions of the proposed approach are background updating, vehicle detection with block-based segmentation, and vehicle tracking with error compensation. During background updating, small-range updating is adopted to overcome environmental changes under congested conditions. During vehicle detection, the proposed approach detects the vehicle candidates from the foreground image, and it resolves problems such as headlight effects. The tracking technique is employed to track vehicles in consecutive frames. First, the method detects edge features in congested scenes. Next, FHIIM is employed to determine the tracked vehicles. Finally, a method that compensates for error cases under congested conditions is applied to refine the tracking qualities. In our experiments, we tested scenarios both inside and outside the tunnel with three lanes. The results showed that the proposed system exhibits good performance under congested conditions.
A new vehicle detection approach in traffic jam conditions
(2007)
Wu, Bing-Fei
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Juang, Jhy-Hong
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Tsai, Ping-Tsung
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Chang, Ming-Wei
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Fan, Chung-Jui
The well-known vehicle detectors utilize the background extraction methods to segment the moving objects. The back-ground updating concept is applied to overcome the luminance variation which results in the error detection. These systems will meet a challenge when detecting the vehicles in the traffic jam conditions at sunset. The vehicles will cover the road surface so that the background information cannot be smoothly updated. Once the traffic is released, the existing background is not suitable for the moving segmentation. The main contribution of this paper is that an efficient vehicle detection approach is proposed to improve the detection accuracy in traffic jam conditions. The land mask decision gives the land information and the merged boundary box rule is presented to realize vehicle detection. The signed square normalized correlation coefficient calculation is addressed, and it is applied to vehicle tracking. The experimental results show that this approach works well in highway and urban area with high accuracy.
A Relative-Discriminative-Histogram-of-Oriented-Gradients-Based Particle Filter Approach to Vehicle Occlusion Handling and Tracking
(2014-08-01)
Wu, Bing-Fei
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Kao, Chih-Chung
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Jen, Cheng-Lung
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Li, Yen-Feng
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Chen, Ying-Han
This paper presents a relative discriminative histogram of oriented gradients (HOG) (RDHOG)-based particle filter (RDHOGPF) approach to traffic surveillance with occlusion handling. Based on the conventional HOG, an extension known as RDHOG is proposed, which enhances the descriptive ability of the central block and the surrounding blocks. RDHOGPF can be used to predict and update the positions of vehicles in continuous video sequences. RDHOG was integrated with the particle filter framework in order to improve the tracking robustness and accuracy. To resolve multiobject tracking problems, a partial occlusion handling approach is addressed, based on the reduction of the particle weights within the occluded region. Using the proposed procedure, the predicted trajectory is closer to that of the real rigid body. The proposed RDHOGPF can determine the target by using the feature descriptor correctly, and it overcomes the drift problem by updating in low-contrast and very bright situations. An empirical evaluation is performed inside a tunnel and on a real road. The test videos include low viewing angles in the tunnel, low-contrast and bright situations, and partial and full occlusions. The experimental results demonstrate that the detection ratio and precision of RDHOGPF both exceed 90%.
Adaptive Vehicle Detector Approach for Complex Environments
(2012-06-01)
Wu, Bing-Fei
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Juang, Jhy-Hong
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電控工程研究所
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Institute of Electrical and Control Engineering
In this paper, a vehicle detection approach for complex environments is presented. This paper proposes methods for solving problems of vehicle detection in traffic jams and complex weather conditions such as sunny days, rainy days, cloudy days, sunrise time, sunset time, or nighttime. In recent research, there have been many well-known vehicle detectors that utilize background extraction methods to recognize vehicles. In these studies, the background image needs to continuously be updated; otherwise, the luminance variation will impact the detection quality. The vehicle detection under various environments will have many difficulties such as illumination vibrations, shadow effects, and vehicle overlapping problems that appear in traffic jams. The main contribution of this paper is to propose an adaptive vehicle detection approach in complex environments to directly detect vehicles without extracting and updating a reference background image in complex environments. In the proposed approach, histogram extension addresses the removal of the effects of weather and light impact. The gray-level differential value method is utilized to directly extract moving objects from the images. Finally, tracking and error compensation are applied to refine the target tracking quality. In addition, many useful traffic parameters are evaluated. These useful traffic parameters, including traffic flows, velocity, and vehicle classifications, can help to control traffic and provide drivers with good guidance. Experimental results show that the proposed methods are robust, accurate, and powerful enough to overcome complex weather conditions and traffic jams.
Real-Time Vehicle Detector with Dynamic Segmentation and Rule-based Tracking Reasoning for Complex Traffic Conditions
(2011-12-31)
Wu, Bing-Fei
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Juang, Jhy-Hong
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電機工程學系
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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Vision-based vehicle detector systems are becoming increasingly important in ITS applications. Real-time operation, robustness, precision, accurate estimation of traffic parameters, and ease of setup are important features to be considered in developing such systems. Further, accurate vehicle detection is difficult in varied complex traffic environments. These environments include changes in weather as well as challenging traffic conditions, such as shadow effects and jams. To meet real-time requirements, the proposed system first applies a color background to extract moving objects, which are then tracked by considering their relative distances and directions. To achieve robustness and precision, the color background is regularly updated by the proposed algorithm to overcome luminance variations. This paper also proposes a scheme of feedback compensation to resolve background convergence errors, which occur when vehicles temporarily park on the roadside while the background image is being converged. Next, vehicle occlusion is resolved using the proposed prior split approach and through reasoning for rule-based tracking. This approach can automatically detect straight lanes. Following this step, trajectories are applied to derive traffic parameters; finally, to facilitate easy setup, we propose a means to automate the setting of the system parameters. Experimental results show that the system can operate well under various complex traffic conditions in real time.