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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2010
Bing-fei Wu, Hsinchu, TW;
Yen-lin Chen, Kaohsiung, TW;
Hao-yu Huang, Kaohsiung, TW;
Chung-jui Fan, Taipei County, TW;
Bing-Fei Wu, Hsinchu, TW;
Yen-Lin Chen, Kaohsiung, TW;
Hao-Yu Huang, Kaohsiung, TW;
Chung-Jui Fan, Taipei County, TW;
National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
The present invention discloses a vehicle tracking system and method, and the tracking method comprises the steps of capturing a bright object from an image by the bright object segmentation; labeling the bright object by a connected component labeling method and forming a connected component object; identifying, analyzing and combining the characteristics of the connected component object to form a lamp object by the bright object recognition; tracking the trajectory of the lamp object by a multi-vehicle tracking method; and identifying the type of a vehicle having the lamp object by the vehicle detection/recognition and counting the number of various vehicles.