Date of Award
8-2009
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.S.
Degree Program
Engineering
Department
Electrical Engineering
Major Professor
Li, X. Rong; Chen, Huimin
Second Advisor
Charalampidis, Dimitrios
Abstract
This thesis presents the development of a surveillance testbed using wireless sensors and video cameras for vehicle detection and tracking. The experimental study includes testbed design and discusses some of the implementation issues in using wireless sensors and video cameras for a practical application. A group of sensor devices equipped with light sensors are used to detect and localize the position of moving vehicle. Background subtraction method is used to detect the moving vehicle from the video sequences. Vehicle centroid is calculated in each frame. A non-linear minimization method is used to estimate the perspective transformation which project 3D points to 2D image points. Vehicle location estimates from three cameras are fused to form a single trajectory representing the vehicle motion. Experimental results using both sensors and cameras are presented. Average error between vehicle location estimates from the cameras and the wireless sensors is around 0.5ft.
Recommended Citation
Bandarupalli, Sowmya, "Vehicle detection and tracking using wireless sensors and video cameras" (2009). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 989.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/989
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