SEMINARIOS DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN INGENIERÍA INFORMÁTICA Y DE
TELECOMUNICACIÓN 2007-2008
Actividad de Formación Continua del Programa Oficial de Posgrado en Ingeniería
Informática y de Telecomunicación
Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad Autónoma de
Madrid
Miércoles, 4 de Junio de 2008, 12:00
Salón de grados, Escuela Politécnica Superior,
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Visual Traffic
Monitoring
Nikos Grammalidis
Informatics and Telematics
Institute - Centre of Research and Technology Hellas, ITI-CERTH, Greece
Abstract
Current developments in the field of visual traffic monitoring will be reviewed.
A real-time vision system for automatic traffic monitoring based on a network of
autonomous tracking units that capture and process images from one or more pre-calibrated
cameras will be presented. The system, which has been developed within the
framework of TRAVIS (TRAffic VISual monitoring) project, is flexible, scalable
and can be useable for a broad field of applications, including traffic
monitoring of tunnels at highways and aircraft parking areas at airports.
Different image processing and data fusion techniques were tested and evaluated
in order to be incorporated to the system. The final output of the image
processing is a set of information for each moving object in the scene, such as
target ID, position, velocity and classification. This can be transmitted to a
remote traffic control centre, as the network demands are very low. This
information is analyzed and used to provide real-time output (e.g. alerts,
electronic road signs, ramp meters, etc) as well as to estimate useful traffic
statistics.
Finally extensions of this technology for surveillance, monitoring and other
applications involving object tracking will be discussed.
Nikos Grammalidis
Nikos Grammalidis is a Researcher at the Informatics and Telematics Institute
- Centre of Research and Technology Hellas. He received the B.S. and Ph.D.
degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, in 1992 and 2000, respectively. Prior to his current position, he
was a researcher in 3D Imaging Laboratory at the Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki. His main research interests include computer vision (with emphasis
on traffic analysis), stereoscopy and multiview image sequence analysis and
coding. His involvement with those research areas has led to the co-authoring of
more than 20 articles in refereed journals and more than 50 papers in
international conferences. Since 1992, he has been actively involved in more
than 20 EC and National(Greek) projects.