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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Vehicle Tracking"”.
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Vehicle tracking and speed estimation for traffic surveillance
Vehicle tracking is one of the critical applications of object detection and tracking. Traffic surveillance has become crucial in this day and age where the number of vehicles on the road has risen considerably. To preserve the safety of motorists, traffic law enforcement assign speed limits at …
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Deep learning-based fine-tuned multi-vehicle tracking with classification correction
Single-camera multi-vehicle tracking is a preliminary step for traffic optimization. To perform vehicle tracking, a fine-tuned classification dataset was created from multiple sources. A ResNet classifier was trained, and its knowledge was utilized to build a localization dataset automatically …
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Vehicle Tracking and Classification via 3D Geometries for Intelligent Transportation Systems
… generalized techniques which allow for the tracking and classification of vehicles by tracking various Point(s) of Interest (PoI) on a vehicle. Tracking the various PoI allows for the composition of those points into 3D geometries which are unique to a given vehicle type. We demonstrate this …
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Patterns of motion in non-overlapping networks using vehicle tracking data
… framework to learn motion patterns based on vehicle tracking data captured by multiple non-overlapping uncalibrated cameras. We assume that the tracks from individual cameras are available. We define the key problems related to the multi-camera surveillance system and present solutions to …
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Feasibility of millimeter-accuracy geodetic positioning and vehicle tracking with repeater satellites
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1989.
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Incorporating thruster dynamics in the control of an underwater vehicle
The dynamics of an underwater vehicle are greatly influenced by the dynamics of the thrusters. Precise control, for example to perform repeatable survey or coordinated vehicle/manipulator control, should incorporate knowledge of thruster dynamic behavior. An energy-based lumped parameter model of …
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Cluster-based target tracking in vehicular ad hoc networks
… Another potential application for VANET lies in vehicle tracking, where a tracking system is used to visually track a specific vehicle or to monitor a particular area. In this case, and in similar applications such as multimedia content sharing, a large volume of information is required to be …
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Intelligent Road Control System Using Advanced Image Processing Techniques
… involved three modules: pavement inspection, vehicle tracking, and collision warning. In the pavement inspection part, the SVM is used to extract the pavement from the background in a given image. The Radon transform is then applied to the pure pavement image to classify the crack to a …
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Parameter Selection for Improved Handling Performance of Automated Vehicles
With the increasing popularity of autonomous vehicles, much research has been done focusing on vehicle vision and tracking ability, but the handling performance of the vehicle itself is still important, especially under emergency circumstances. However, production vehicles are developed with the …
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Design and experimental evaluation of an Autonomous Surface Craft to support AUV operations
… increase in the use of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) for numerous military, commercial, and scientific missions. These include mapping, oceanographic data collection, and search and recovery. The list of the key technologies for AUV research includes communications, power, navigation, …
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Controller design for underwater vehicle systems with communication constraints
Real-time cooperation between autonomous vehicles can enable time-critical missions such as tracking and pursuit of a dynamic target or environmental feature, but relies on wireless communications. Underwater communication is almost exclusively accomplished through acoustics, which bring challenges …
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Motion pattern analysis for far-field vehicle surveillance
… is to analyze the motion patterns in far-field vehicle tracking data collected by multiple, stationary non-overlapping cameras. The specific focus is to fully recover the camera's network topology, which means the graph structure relating cameras and typical transitions time between cameras, …
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Nonholonomic Control Utilizing Kinematic Constraints of Differential and Ackermann Steering Based Platforms
A nonholonomic tracking controller is designed and adapted to work with both differential steering and Ackermann steering based platforms whose dynamics are represented using a unicycle model. The goal of this work is to find a relatively simple approach that offers a practical alternative to bulky …
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Protocol stacks for power-aware wireless microsensor networks
… node prototypes, with TDMA Media Access and a vehicle tracking application demonstration.
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Biologically inspired composite image sensor for deep field target tracking
… optical axis allows for fast acquisition and tracking of objects moving at high rates of speed. In order to investigate how effective this combination would be for object detection and tracking at both near and far field, the system was tuned for the application of vehicle detection and …
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Controller design for underwater vehicle systems with communication constraints
Real-time cooperation between autonomous vehicles can enable time-critical missions such as tracking and pursuit of a dynamic target or environmental feature, but relies on wireless communications. Underwater, communication over distances beyond about one hundred meters is almost exclusively …
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Unsupervised tracking algorithm for precise traffic estimation in panoramic scenes
The student, Fangyu Wu, accepted the attached license on 2018-04-04 at 23:48.
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Multiple-vehicle resource-constrained navigation in the deep ocean
… discusses sensor management methods for multiple-vehicle fleets of autonomous underwater vehicles, which will allow for more efficient and capable infrastructure in marine science, industry, and naval applications. Navigation for fleets of vehicles in the ocean presents a large challenge, as GPS …
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An embedded, wireless-energy-harvesting platform (E-WEHP) for powering sensors using existing, ambient, wireless signals present in the air
… EPC-Gen2 RFID tags. A GPS-like, low-cost, vehicle-tracking system based on a received-signal-strength-indication method using SOLTAGs in vehicles and a wireless network of Mica-motes is successfully developed and tested with accuracy down to 1.62 meters The third and main part of this …
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Observer Design for Non-Monotonic Nonlinear Systems and Interesting Contemporary Applications
… in many practical applications, including vehicle tracking, magnetic position estimation, robotics, state of charge (SoC) estimation in Li-ion batteries, and infectious disease spread dynamics. Very few papers in literature have recognized the challenge that existing nonlinear observer …
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