A semi-automatic 2D solution for vehicle speed estimation from monocular videos

Amit Kumar, Pirazh Khorramshahi, Wei An Lin, Prithviraj Dhar, Jun Cheng Chen, Rama Chellappa

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Abstract

In this work, we present a novel approach for vehicle speed estimation from monocular videos. The pipeline consists of modules for multi-object detection, robust tracking, and speed estimation. The tracking algorithm has the capability for jointly tracking individual vehicles and estimating velocities in the image domain. However, since camera parameters are often unavailable and extensive variations are present in the scenes, transforming measurements in the image domain to real world is challenging. We propose a simple two-stage algorithm to approximate the transformation. Images are first rectified to restore affine properties, then the scaling factor is compensated for each scene. We show the effectiveness of the proposed method with extensive experiments on the traffic speed analysis dataset in the NVIDIA AI City challenge. We achieve a detection rate of 1.0 in vehicle detection and tracking, and Root Mean Square Error of 9.54 (mph) for the task of vehicle speed estimation in unconstrained traffic videos.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2018 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPRW 2018
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages137-144
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781538661000
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 13 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event31st Meeting of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPRW 2018 - Salt Lake City, United States
Duration: Jun 18 2018Jun 22 2018

Publication series

NameIEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops
Volume2018-June
ISSN (Print)2160-7508
ISSN (Electronic)2160-7516

Other

Other31st Meeting of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPRW 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySalt Lake City
Period6/18/186/22/18

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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