Bi-Directional Dense Traffic Counting Based on Spatio-Temporal Counting Feature and Counting-LSTM Network
- 23 June 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Vol. 22 (12), 7395-7407
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tits.2020.3001638
Abstract
Machine vision based vehicle counting and traffic flow estimation are challenging problems especially for dense traffic scenarios. Previous line of interest (LOI) counting methods rarely focus on dense scenarios and their performance largely relies on the accuracy of tracking. Avoiding the use of complex tracking methods, an LOI counting framework is proposed to address the bi-directional LOI counting problem in dense scenarios. There are three main contributions. Firstly, instead of treating the LOI vehicle counting problem as a combination of detecting and tracking of individual vehicles, the bi-directional traffic flow is taken as a whole and a novel spatio-temporal counting feature (STCF) is proposed for extracting bi-directional traffic flow features in dense traffic scenarios. Secondly, without relying on a multi-target tracking process for tracking and counting each vehicle, a counting network is proposed, called the counting Long Short-Term Memory (cLSTM) network, to do analysis of the bi-directional STCF features and vehicle counting in successive video frames. Lastly, an estimation model is designed for estimating traffic flow parameters including speed, volume and density. Experiments performed on the UA-DETRAC dataset and the captured videos show that the proposed vehicle counting method outperforms the tested representative LOI counting methods in both accuracy and speed, and that the proposed framework can efficiently estimate traffic flow parameters including speed, volume and density in real time.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Key Research and Development Program of China (2018YFB1305300)
- National Nature Science Foundation of China (61673244, 61703240)
- Key Research and Development Program of Shandong Province of China (2019JZZY010130, 2018CXGC0907)
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