Vehicle detection and motion analysis in low-altitude airborne video under urban environment

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1522-1533

  Cao, Xianbin ^a   Wu, Changxia ^b   Lan, Jinhe ^b   Yan, Pingkun ^c   Li, Xuelong ^c  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c XI AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

Motion analysis; moving vehicle detection; spatio temporal; urban environment

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE PLATFORMS; AIRBORNE VIDEO; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; DETECTION RATES; DIFFERENT SCALE; FALSE POSITIVE RATES; FEATURE EXTRACTION METHODS; GLOBAL FEATURE; LOW-ALTITUDE; MOTION ANALYSIS; MOVING VEHICLES; PLATFORM MOTION; REAL-TIME PLATFORM; SCENE COMPLEXITY; SIMILARITY MEASURE; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; URBAN TRAFFIC SURVEILLANCE; VEHICLE DETECTION; VEHICLE MOTION; VISUAL SURVEILLANCE;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; SECURITY SYSTEMS; URBAN PLANNING; VEHICLES;

AIRCRAFT DETECTION;

EID: 80053543071     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2011.2162274     Document Type: Article

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