Automatic traffic data collection under varying lighting and temperature conditions in multimodal environments: Thermal versus visible spectrum video-based systems

Journal of Advanced Transportation

Volumn 2017, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Fu, Ting ^a   Stipancic, Joshua ^a   Zangenehpour, Sohail ^a   Miranda Moreno, Luis ^a   Saunier, Nicolas ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DIGITAL STORAGE; LIGHTING; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; SPEED REGULATORS; STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS; VIDEO CAMERAS; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

AUTOMATED DATA COLLECTION; CONVENTIONAL SENSORS; MULTIMODAL FACILITIES; PAVEMENT TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS; TRAFFIC DATA COLLECTION; VIDEO-BASED SYSTEMS; VISION BASED MONITORING SYSTEMS;

DATA ACQUISITION;

EID: 85019653629     PISSN: 01976729     EISSN: 20423195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2017/5142732     Document Type: Article

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