Improved design for vision-based incident detection in transportation systems using real-time view transformations

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 132, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 837-844

  Tzamali, Eleftheria ^a   Akoumianakis, George ^a   Argyros, Antonis ^a   Stephanedes, Yorgos J ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Imaging techniques; Traffic accidents; Transportation systems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

HOMOGRAPHY-BASED TRANSFORMATION; INCIDENT DETECTION; PANORAMIC IMAGE REPROJECTION; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER VISION;

ALGORITHM; IMAGING METHOD; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM; TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33750099601     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-947X(2006)132:11(837)     Document Type: Article

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