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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"vehicle detection"”.
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Vehicle Detection in Deep Learning
… is used to help police find criminals, vehicle detection is used to prevent drivers from serious traffic accidents, and written word recognition is used to convert written words into printed words. With the rapid development of vehicle detection given the use of deep learning techniques, …
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Provident Vehicle Detection at Night in Urban Scenarios
The quest for fully autonomous vehicles has made significant strides in recent years, with partial automation becoming increasingly common in modern vehicles. However, achieving widespread public acceptance of autonomous systems hinges on ensuring their safety and reliability. Central to the …
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Vision-Based Over-Height Vehicle Detection for Warning Drivers
… at a time when trucks and other large vehicles were smaller. A bridge or tunnel strike is an incidence in which a vehicle, typically a lorry (truck) or double-decker bus, tries to pass under a bridge or tunnel that is lower than its height, subsequently colliding with the structure. …
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Automated Vehicle Detection and Classification using Acoustic and Seismic Signals
… consider the use of automated systems capable of detection and identification of potential threats. This thesis describes an investigation into acoustic and seismic methods for achieving such a system specifically for commercial road vehicles. Accurate algorithms have been developed for …
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Vehicle detection and tracking using wireless sensors and video cameras
… using wireless sensors and video cameras for vehicle detection and tracking. The experimental study includes testbed design and discusses some of the implementation issues in using wireless sensors and video cameras for a practical application. A group of sensor devices equipped with light …
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A Multi-head Attention Approach with Complementary Multimodal Fusion for Vehicle Detection
The advancement of autonomous vehicle technologies has taken a significant leap with the development of an improved version of the Multimodal Vehicle Detection Network (MVDNet), distinguished by the integration of a multi-head attention layer. This key enhancement significantly refines the …
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Modernising traffic flow analysis: A computer vision-driven prototype for vehicle detection
… phases of a prototype that performs accurate vehicle detection? How will the performance of a vehicle-detection prototype be measured? What are the barriers to the development of a vehicle-detection prototype? Computer vision holds the capabilities of performing duties by replicating tasks …
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Real-time aerial vehicle detection and tracking with depth-aided vision sensing
… from depth vision sensor to achieve much faster detection speed while maintain high detection accuracy. We revised some of algorithms presented in part-based representation method to get marginally better performance. Then we invented a novel data preprocessing method, which is based on edge …
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Towards Parking Lot Occupancy Assessment Using Aerial Imagery and Computer Vision
… pipeline of components includes Image Stitching, Vehicle Detection and Heatmap Generation. The focus of this work is Image Stitching and Vehicle Detection, while Heatmap Generation is left for future work. Beyond proposing a novel framework for parking lot occupancy assessments, several …
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Geomagnetic Compensation for Low-Cost Crash Avoidance Project
… cars passing when it was mounted to a test vehicle. However, the magnetic sensor’s output voltage varied when it changed orientation with respect to the Earth’s magnetic field. This limited the previous work to only analyze detection rates when the test vehicle travelled a single heading. …
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Road vehicle recognition and classification using magnetic field measurement
This dissertation presents a road vehicle detection approach for intelligent transportation systems. This approach uses a roadside-installed, low-cost magnetic sensor and associated data collection system. The system measures magnetic field changes to count, detect, and classify passing vehicles …
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Investigating the ability of automated license plate recognition camera systems to measure travel times in work zones
This thesis evaluates the performance of a vehicle detection technology, Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) camera systems, with regards to its ability to produce real-time travel time information in active work zones. A literature review was conducted to investigate the ALPR technology as …
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Design and development of an autonomous mobile robot for parking lot mapping
… inverse perspective mapping, probabilistic line detection, and pose-based line clustering to approximate metric-scaled line marking representations. An incremental mapping algorithm uses robot localization to merge spatially related line detections and create a globally consistent map. Parking …
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Evaluation of an acoustic detection algorithm for reactive collision avoidance in underwater applications
This thesis sought to evaluate a vehicle detection algorithm based on a passive acoustic sensor, intended for autonomous collision avoidance in Unmanned Underwater Vehicles. By placing a hydrophone at a safe distance from a dock, it was possible to record the acoustic signature generated by a small …
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Vision and Radar Fusion for Identification of Vehicles in Traffic
… the presence and duration of preceding and lead vehicle in front of a motorcycle using an object detection algorithm guided by radar data. The video and radar data were collected as part of a large transportation project. The data are recorded by the ego vehicle during a trip while in a …
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A two-point vehicle classification system
The counting and classification of vehicles is an important part of transportation engineering. In the past twenty years many automated systems have been developed to accomplish that labor-intensive task. Unfortunately most of those systems are characterized by inaccurate detection systems and/or …
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PROACTIVE DETECTION OF ALCOHOL IMPAIRMENT: LEVERAGING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR ENHANCED TRAFFIC SAFETY
… prevention strategies to save traffic. Current detection systems are primarily reactive, with limited effectiveness in proactively identifying impairment, especially out-of-the-vehicle detection methods. To address this gap, this thesis introduces a novel approach that uses machine learning (ML) …
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Managing resources on a multi-modal sensing device for energy-aware state estimation
… then demonstrate optimal sensing policies on a vehicle detection application. A sensing platform is developed consisting of an ultra-low power MSP430 Micro Controller Unit (MCU), a high-performance ARM-based MCU, a passive infrared motion sensor, and a camera. This platform is capable of 100× …
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Epitome and its applications
… model may fail for image recognition and target detection, which directly motivates us to propose the so-called spatialized epitome in this thesis. Extended from the original simple graphical model of epitome, the spatialized epitome provides a general framework to integrate both appearance and …
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Biologically inspired composite image sensor for deep field target tracking
… 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 tracking from a moving platform. Finally, it was shown that the capturing of license plate information in an autonomous fashion …
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