Enhancing the quality of infrared-based automatic pedestrian sensor data by nonparametric statistical method

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2264, 2011, Pages 11-17

  Yang, Hong ^a   Ozbay, Kaan ^a   Bartin, Bekir ^a  

^a the state University of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DECISION MAKING; INFRARED DETECTORS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; PEDESTRIAN SAFETY; STATISTICAL METHODS; VIDEO RECORDING;

CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; CASE-STUDIES; INFRA-RED SENSOR; INFRARED SENSOR; INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS; NON-PARAMETRIC STATISTICAL METHODS; PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENT; SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SENSORS DATA; VEHICLE MOVEMENTS;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 84863261678     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2264-02     Document Type: Article

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