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The present article discusses the problem of detecting and counting of moving vehicle (MV) in a road traffic scenario, where background subtraction (BS) plays a vital role. BS in a video sequence is an open problem with many practical applications including camera surveillance system, human-computer interactions, etc. Among the various methods of BS, frame difference method is a simple and most adopted one. However, the performance of frame deference method depends on the proper selection of a set of frames. To meet this problem, we describe an efficient and fast processing approach for detecting and counting of MVs. A region/block-level analysis of frames is performed in this approach which requires less processing time and provides more accurate results compared to the conventional pixel-level analysis. We have used fuzzy flood fill mean shift based segmentation algorithm for this present study, which is robust under the illumination effects; such as shadows, shades, and highlights. In pixel-level analysis, segmentation operation is performed on the difference frame obtained from two test frames and detection of MV is made subsequently. However, detection with region-level analysis is made based on the geometric movement of regions between frames. Performance comparison between these two methods is made and superiority of the region-level based analysis is validated through examples. Also, we describe the estimation of the number of vehicles in a multiple MV traffic scenarios.
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Meher, S.K., Murty, M.N. (2012). Efficient Detection and Counting of Moving Vehicles with Region-Level Analysis of Video Frames. In: Deep, K., Nagar, A., Pant, M., Bansal, J. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving (SocProS 2011) December 20-22, 2011. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 131. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-0491-6_3
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