Development and field test of a laser-based nonintrusive detection system for identification of vehicles on the highway

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 147-155

  Cheng, Harry H ^a   Shaw, Benjamin D ^a   Palen, Joe ^b   Lin, Bin ^c   Chen, Bo ^a   Wang, Zhaoqing ^d  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION   (United States)

^c AGERE SYSTEMS   (United States)

^d ZheJiang Sci University   (China)

Author keywords

Intelligent transportation systems; Laser based detection system; Real time vehicle detection

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; IMAGE PROCESSING; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTODIODES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS; LASER-BASED DETECTION SYSTEM; VEHICLE DETECTION; VIDEO IMAGES;

INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

EID: 21644456250     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2005.848364     Document Type: Article

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