Cast vehicle shadow segmentation based on contour analysis

IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Proceedings, ITSC

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 866-871

  Yan, Zengjia ^b   Zhang, Hao ^b   Meng, Huadong ^a,b   Wang, Xiqin ^b,c  

^a IEEE

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ITiS Lab

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TALL BUILDINGS; VEHICLE LOCATING SYSTEMS; VEHICLES;

CONTOUR ANALYSIS; CONTOUR MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; GEOMETRICAL INFORMATIONS; IMAGE SEQUENCING; INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS; LIGHTING CONDITIONS; NOVEL METHODS; REAL-WORLD TRAFFIC; SHADOW SEGMENTATION; TRAFFIC IMAGES; TRAFFIC SCENES; TWO-STEP METHODS;

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 49249087248     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITSC.2007.4357714     Document Type: Conference Paper

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