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We developed a car counting system using car detection methods for both daytime and nighttime traffic scenes. The detection methods comprise two stages: car hypothesis generation and hypothesis verification. For daytime traffic scenes, we proposed a new car hypothesis generation by rapidly locating car windshield regions, which are used to estimate car positions in occlusion situations. For car hypothesis at nighttime, we proposed an approach using k-means clustering-based segmentation to find headlight candidates to facilitate the later pairing process. Counting decision is made from Kalman filter-based tracking, followed by rule-based verification. The results evaluated on real-world traffic videos show that our system can work well in different conditions of lighting and occlusion.
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Pham, VH., Le, DH. (2018). A Two-Stage Detection Approach for Car Counting in Day and Nighttime. In: Bhateja, V., Nguyen, B., Nguyen, N., Satapathy, S., Le, DN. (eds) Information Systems Design and Intelligent Applications. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 672. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7512-4_16
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