TY - JOUR PY - 2019// TI - Vehicle detection and tracking in complex traffic circumstances with roadside LiDAR JO - Transportation research record A1 - Zhang, Zhenyao A1 - Zheng, Jianying A1 - Xu, Hao A1 - Wang, Xiang SP - 62 EP - 71 VL - 2673 IS - 9 N2 - The problem of traffic safety has become increasingly prominent owing to the increase in the number of cars. Traffic accidents often occur in an instant, which makes it necessary to obtain traffic data with high resolution. High-resolution micro traffic data (HRMTD) indicates that the spatial resolution reaches the centimeter level and that the temporal resolution reaches the millisecond level. The position, direction, speed, and acceleration of objects on the road can be extracted with HRMTD. In this paper, a LiDAR sensor was installed at the roadside for data collection. An adjacent-frame fusion method for vehicle detection and tracking in complex traffic circumstances is presented. Compared with the previous research, objects can be detected and tracked without object model extraction or a bounding box description. In addition, problems caused by occlusion can be improved using adjacent frames fusion in the vehicle detection and tracking algorithms in this paper. The data processing procedure are as follows: selection of area of interest, ground point removal, vehicle clustering, and vehicle tracking. The algorithm has been tested at different sites (in Reno and Suzhou), and the results demonstrate that the algorithm can perform well in both simple and complex application scenarios.
Language: en
LA - en SN - 0361-1981 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361198119844457 ID - ref1 ER -