Seminar: The CarSpeed project (2008/09/30, 19h)
September 27, 2008Title: The CarSpeed project
Speaker: Victor Hidalgo
Date: 2008/09/30, 19h
Place: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos at Robotics Lab (Departamental-II)
Next tuesday, September 30 at 19h, we will hold the seminar “The CarSpeed project’ in the Robotics Lab. Victor Hidalgo will explain his work in that project, and the underlying computer vision technology. CarSpeed deals with an application that it is able to carry out precise estimation of vehicle speeds. It also counts the number of the vehicles that travel through the road.
The system uses a single off-the-shelf camera. Its images are carefully analyzed to give estimations of vehicles speed. The application detects and tracks the vehicles on the road. The detection step allows the system to realize the appearance of new vehicles. It uses a sampled motion filter. The tracking algorithm starts for each new detected vehicle. It implements an homography and an evolutionary algorithm that keep several speed hypothesis while they are compatible with the camera images. Check out this video (right) for a demo.