Highly accurate texture-based vehicle segmentation method

Optical Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 591-603

  Lam, William Wai Leung ^a   Pang, Clement Chun Cheong ^a   Yung, Nelson H C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Intelligent transportation systems; Shadow detection; Texture analysis; Vehicle segmentation; Visual traffic surveillance

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LIGHTING; TRAFFIC SURVEYS;

CHROMINANCE; IMAGE SEQUENCES; INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS; LUMINANCE; SHADOW DETECTION; TEXTURE ANALYSIS; TEXTURE-BASED VEHICLE SEGMENTATION; VISUAL TRAFFIC SURVEILLANCE;

INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

EID: 2342650830     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1645849     Document Type: Article

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