Image-based traffic monitoring with shadow suppression

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 413-426

  Song, Kai Tai ^a   Tai, Jen Chao ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b MINGHSIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Image processing; Shadow suppression; Traffic monitoring system; Vehicle detection; Visual tracking

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MONITORING; PIXELS; TRAFFIC CONTROL; VEHICLES;

MISCLASSIFICATIONS; SHADOW DETECTIONS; SHADOW SUPPRESSION; TRAFFIC MONITORING; TRAFFIC MONITORING SYSTEMS; TRAFFIC PARAMETERS; VEHICLE DETECTION; VISUAL TRACKING;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 49249103055     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2006.888403     Document Type: Article

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