Tracking and pairing vehicle headlight in night scenes

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 140-153

  Zhang, Wei ^a   Wu, Q M J ^b   Wang, Guanghui ^c   You, Xinge ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Calibration; intelligent transportation system; reflection; vehicle headlight detection; vehicle headlight pairing

Indexed keywords

CAMERA CALIBRATION; INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS; LIGHT ATTENUATION; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; REASONING ALGORITHMS; REFLECTION INTENSITY; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS; TRAFFIC MONITORING; TRAFFIC SURVEILLANCE; TYPICAL SEQUENCES; VEHICLE SPEED;

CALIBRATION; CAMERAS; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; REFLECTION; SECURITY SYSTEMS; VEHICLE LOCATING SYSTEMS;

HEADLIGHTS;

EID: 84857782823     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2011.2165338     Document Type: Article

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