Image Analysis and Rule-Based Reasoning for a Traffic Monitoring System

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 119-130

  Cucchiara, Rita ^a,c   Piccardi, Massimo ^b,c   Mello, Paola ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Image analysis; Knowledge based systems; Traffic monitoring; Vehicle tracking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000755808     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/6979.880969     Document Type: Article

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