A Real-Time Vehicle Counting, Speed Estimation, and Classification System Based on Virtual Detection Zone and YOLO

In recent years, vehicle detection and classification have become essential tasks of intelligent transportation systems, and real-time, accurate vehicle detection from image and video data for traffic monitoring remains challenging. The most noteworthy challenges are real-time system operation to ac...

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Autores principales: Cheng-Jian Lin, Shiou-Yun Jeng, Hong-Wei Lioa
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:ecc098a3d5a24c59b846c46caeaca0292021-11-15T01:20:10ZA Real-Time Vehicle Counting, Speed Estimation, and Classification System Based on Virtual Detection Zone and YOLO1563-514710.1155/2021/1577614https://doaj.org/article/ecc098a3d5a24c59b846c46caeaca0292021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/1577614https://doaj.org/toc/1563-5147In recent years, vehicle detection and classification have become essential tasks of intelligent transportation systems, and real-time, accurate vehicle detection from image and video data for traffic monitoring remains challenging. The most noteworthy challenges are real-time system operation to accurately locate and classify vehicles in traffic flows and working around total occlusions that hinder vehicle tracking. For real-time traffic monitoring, we present a traffic monitoring approach that overcomes the abovementioned challenges by employing convolutional neural networks that utilize You Only Look Once (YOLO). A real-time traffic monitoring system has been developed, and it has attracted significant attention from traffic management departments. Digitally processing and analyzing these videos in real time is crucial for extracting reliable data on traffic flow. Therefore, this study presents a real-time traffic monitoring system based on a virtual detection zone, Gaussian mixture model (GMM), and YOLO to increase the vehicle counting and classification efficiency. GMM and a virtual detection zone are used for vehicle counting, and YOLO is used to classify vehicles. Moreover, the distance and time traveled by a vehicle are used to estimate the speed of the vehicle. In this study, the Montevideo Audio and Video Dataset (MAVD), the GARM Road-Traffic Monitoring data set (GRAM-RTM), and our collection data sets are used to verify the proposed method. Experimental results indicate that the proposed method with YOLOv4 achieved the highest classification accuracy of 98.91% and 99.5% in MAVD and GRAM-RTM data sets, respectively. Moreover, the proposed method with YOLOv4 also achieves the highest classification accuracy of 99.1%, 98.6%, and 98% in daytime, night time, and rainy day, respectively. In addition, the average absolute percentage error of vehicle speed estimation with the proposed method is about 7.6%.Cheng-Jian LinShiou-Yun JengHong-Wei LioaHindawi LimitedarticleEngineering (General). Civil engineering (General)TA1-2040MathematicsQA1-939ENMathematical Problems in Engineering, Vol 2021 (2021)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
topic Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
TA1-2040
Mathematics
QA1-939
spellingShingle Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
TA1-2040
Mathematics
QA1-939
Cheng-Jian Lin
Shiou-Yun Jeng
Hong-Wei Lioa
A Real-Time Vehicle Counting, Speed Estimation, and Classification System Based on Virtual Detection Zone and YOLO
description In recent years, vehicle detection and classification have become essential tasks of intelligent transportation systems, and real-time, accurate vehicle detection from image and video data for traffic monitoring remains challenging. The most noteworthy challenges are real-time system operation to accurately locate and classify vehicles in traffic flows and working around total occlusions that hinder vehicle tracking. For real-time traffic monitoring, we present a traffic monitoring approach that overcomes the abovementioned challenges by employing convolutional neural networks that utilize You Only Look Once (YOLO). A real-time traffic monitoring system has been developed, and it has attracted significant attention from traffic management departments. Digitally processing and analyzing these videos in real time is crucial for extracting reliable data on traffic flow. Therefore, this study presents a real-time traffic monitoring system based on a virtual detection zone, Gaussian mixture model (GMM), and YOLO to increase the vehicle counting and classification efficiency. GMM and a virtual detection zone are used for vehicle counting, and YOLO is used to classify vehicles. Moreover, the distance and time traveled by a vehicle are used to estimate the speed of the vehicle. In this study, the Montevideo Audio and Video Dataset (MAVD), the GARM Road-Traffic Monitoring data set (GRAM-RTM), and our collection data sets are used to verify the proposed method. Experimental results indicate that the proposed method with YOLOv4 achieved the highest classification accuracy of 98.91% and 99.5% in MAVD and GRAM-RTM data sets, respectively. Moreover, the proposed method with YOLOv4 also achieves the highest classification accuracy of 99.1%, 98.6%, and 98% in daytime, night time, and rainy day, respectively. In addition, the average absolute percentage error of vehicle speed estimation with the proposed method is about 7.6%.
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author Cheng-Jian Lin
Shiou-Yun Jeng
Hong-Wei Lioa
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Shiou-Yun Jeng
Hong-Wei Lioa
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title A Real-Time Vehicle Counting, Speed Estimation, and Classification System Based on Virtual Detection Zone and YOLO
title_short A Real-Time Vehicle Counting, Speed Estimation, and Classification System Based on Virtual Detection Zone and YOLO
title_full A Real-Time Vehicle Counting, Speed Estimation, and Classification System Based on Virtual Detection Zone and YOLO
title_fullStr A Real-Time Vehicle Counting, Speed Estimation, and Classification System Based on Virtual Detection Zone and YOLO
title_full_unstemmed A Real-Time Vehicle Counting, Speed Estimation, and Classification System Based on Virtual Detection Zone and YOLO
title_sort real-time vehicle counting, speed estimation, and classification system based on virtual detection zone and yolo
publisher Hindawi Limited
publishDate 2021
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