Detection and correction of inductive loop detector sensitivity errors by using gaussian mixture models

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2256, 2011, Pages 120-129

  Corey, Jonathan ^a   Lao, Yunteng ^a   Wu, Yao Jan ^b   Wang, Yinhai ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b Saint Louis University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COST EFFECTIVENESS; ERRORS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

DETECTION NETWORKS; DETECTOR SENSITIVITY; DETECTOR TECHNOLOGY; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; INDUCTIVE LOOP DETECTORS; MONITORING CONTROL; SENSITIVITY SETTING; SIGNAL CONTROL; TRAFFIC DETECTION; VEHICLES DETECTION;

VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84863078498     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2256-15     Document Type: Article

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