USRE48914E1 - System and method for multipurpose traffic detection and characterization - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a system and method for traffic detection and more particularly to an optical system that detects the presence, location, lane position, direction and speed of vehicles in a traffic zone using an active three-dimensional sensor based on the time-of-flight ranging principle and an image sensor.
- Traffic monitoring can consist in different activities such as detecting the presence of a vehicle in a specific zone, counting the number of vehicles (volume), determining the lane position, classifying each vehicle, determining the direction of travel, estimating the occupancy and determining the speed.
- the FHWA has defined a vehicle classification based on 13 categories of vehicles from motorcycles, passenger cars, buses, two-axle-six-tire-single unit trucks, and up to a seven or more axle multi-trailer trucks classes.
- Several alternative classification schemes are possible. Often, the aggregation of the FHWA 13 classes is split into 3 or 4 classes. Other countries have their own way to define a classification for vehicles.
- a red light enforcement system has comparable requirements. There is a need for an automatic red light enforcement system but the high reliability required for this application is also challenging. It implies the detection of vehicles at specific locations, the tracking of each of these vehicles in dense traffic at the intersection, the identification of each of these vehicles with the ALPR system, the confirmation of a red light violation by a specific vehicle and the collection of all information to support the issuance of a traffic violation ticket to the registered owner of the vehicle without any ambiguity.
- Intrusive detectors such as inductive loop detectors are still common for detecting the presence of vehicles but have some disadvantages such as lengthy disruption to the traffic flow during installation and maintenance, inflexibility and inability to track a vehicle.
- Cameras with video processing have some drawbacks notably for speed measurement.
- Radar technology is known to perform well for speed measurement but has some limitations in terms of lateral resolution making difficult the association between a speed measurement and the identification of a specific vehicle in dense traffic, for example, at an intersection. Radar technology presents difficulties in the correlation of a specific speed measurement to a specific vehicle when two or more vehicles traveling at different speeds simultaneously enter into the measurement beam. This limitation has an impact for speed enforcement applications. In some countries, legislation requires that ambiguous situations simply be discarded to reduce errors in the process. Installation of radar technology for speed enforcement is demanding because it requires adjusting the angle of the axis of the main lobe of emission in both the horizontal and vertical directions with respect to the axis of the road, with accuracy typically less than one-half degree angle to limit the cosine effect.
- a method for tracking and characterizing a plurality of vehicles simultaneously in a traffic control environment comprises providing a 3D optical emitter at an installation height oriented to allow illumination of a 3D detection zone in the environment; providing a 3D optical receiver oriented to have a wide and deep field of view within the 3D detection zone, the 3D optical receiver having a plurality of detection channels in the field of view; driving the 3D optical emitter into emitting short light pulses toward the detection zone, the light pulses having an emitted light waveform; receiving a reflection/backscatter of the emitted light on the vehicles in the 3D detection zone at the 3D optical receiver, thereby acquiring an individual digital full-waveform LIDAR trace for each detection channel of the 3D optical receiver; using the individual digital full-waveform LIDAR trace and the emitted light waveform, detecting a presence of a plurality of vehicles in the 3D detection zone, a position of at least part of each the vehicle in the 3D
- detecting the presence includes extracting observations in the individual digital full-waveform LIDAR trace; using the location for the observations to remove observations coming from a surrounding environment; extracting lines using an estimate line and a covariance matrix using polar coordinates; removing observations located on lines parallel to the x axis.
- detecting the presence includes extracting observations in the individual digital full-waveform LIDAR trace and intensity data for the observations; finding at least one blob in the observations; computing an observation weight depending on the intensity of the observations in the blob; computing a blob gravity center based on the weight and a position of the observations in the blob.
- the method further comprises setting at least one trigger line location and recording trigger line trespassing data with the unique identifier.
- the method further comprises setting the trigger line location relative to a visible landmark in the environment.
- detecting the time at which the position is detected includes assigning a timestamp for the detecting the presence and wherein the timestamp is adapted to be synchronized with an external controller.
- the method further comprises obtaining a classification for each detected vehicles using a plurality of detections in the 3D detection zone caused by the same vehicle.
- detecting the presence further comprises detecting a presence of a pedestrian in the environment.
- the part of the vehicle is one of a front, a side and a rear of the vehicle.
- emitting short light pulses includes emitting short light pulses of a duration of less than 50 ns.
- the 3D optical emitter is at least one of an infrared LED source, a visible-light LED source and a laser.
- providing the 3D optical receiver to have a wide and deep field of view includes providing the 3D optical receiver to have a horizontal field of view angle of at least 20° and a vertical field of view angle of at least 4°.
- the method further comprises determining and recording a speed for each the vehicle using the position and the updated position of one of the instances of the repeating step and an elapsed time between the time of the position and the updated time of the updated position, with the unique identifier.
- the method further comprises using a Kalman filter to determine an accuracy for the speed to validate the speed; comparing the accuracy to a predetermined accuracy threshold; if the accuracy is lower than the predetermined accuracy threshold, rejecting the speed.
- the method further comprises retrieving a speed limit and identifying a speed limit infraction by comparing the speed recorded for each the vehicle to the speed limit.
- the vehicle identification data is at least one of a picture of the vehicle and a license plate alphanumerical code present on the vehicle.
- the vehicle identification data includes the 2D image showing a traffic violation.
- the method further comprises extracting at least one of a size of characters on the license plate and a size of the license plate and comparing one of the size among different instances of the repeating to determine an approximate speed value.
- the method further comprises providing a 2D illumination source oriented to allow illumination of a 2D detection zone in the 3D detection zone and driving the 2D illumination source to emit pulses to illuminate the 2D detection zone and synchronizing the driving the 2D optical receiver to capture images with the driving the 2D illumination source to emit pulses to allow capture of the images during the illumination.
- the 3D optical emitter and the 2D illumination source are provided by a common infrared LED light source.
- the vehicle identification data is at least two areas of high retroreflectivity apparent on the images
- the detecting a presence includes extracting observations in the individual digital signals and intensity data for the observations, the method further comprising correlating locations for the areas of high retroreflectivity and high intensity data locations in the observations, wherein each the area of high retroreflectivity is created from one of a retroreflective license plate, a retro-reflector affixed on a vehicle and a retro-reflective lighting module provided on a vehicle.
- the method further comprises combining multiples ones of the captured images into a combined image with the vehicle and the vehicle identification data apparent.
- a system for tracking and characterizing a plurality of vehicles simultaneously in a traffic control environment comprising: a 3D optical emitter provided at an installation height and oriented to allow illumination of a 3D detection zone in the environment; a 3D optical receiver provided and oriented to have a wide and deep field of view within the 3D detection zone, the 3D optical receiver having a plurality of detection channels in the field of view; a controller for driving the 3D optical emitter into emitting short light pulses toward the detection zone, the light pulses having an emitted light waveform; the 3D optical receiver receiving a reflection/backscatter of the emitted light on the vehicles in the 3D detection zone, thereby acquiring an individual digital full-waveform LIDAR trace for each channel of the 3D optical receiver; a processor for detecting a presence of a plurality of vehicles in the 3D detection zone using the individual digital full-waveform LIDAR trace and the emitted light waveform, detecting a position of
- the processor is further for determining and recording a speed for each the vehicle using the position and the updated position of one of the instances of the repeating step and an elapsed time between the time of the position and the updated time of the updated position, with the unique identifier.
- the system further comprises a 2D optical receiver, wherein the 2D optical receiver is an image sensor adapted to provide images of the 2D detection zone; and a driver for driving the 2D optical receiver to capture a 2D image; the processor being further adapted for using image registration to correlate corresponding locations between the 2D image and the detection channels and extracting vehicle identification data from the 2D image at a location corresponding to the location for the detected vehicle; and assigning the vehicle identification data to the unique identifier.
- the 2D optical receiver is an image sensor adapted to provide images of the 2D detection zone; and a driver for driving the 2D optical receiver to capture a 2D image
- the processor being further adapted for using image registration to correlate corresponding locations between the 2D image and the detection channels and extracting vehicle identification data from the 2D image at a location corresponding to the location for the detected vehicle; and assigning the vehicle identification data to the unique identifier.
- the system further comprises a 2D illumination source provided and oriented to allow illumination of a 2D detection zone in the 3D detection zone; a source driver for driving the 2D illumination source to emit pulses; a synchronization module for synchronizing the source driver and the driver to allow capture of the images while the 2D detection zone is illuminated.
- a 2D illumination source provided and oriented to allow illumination of a 2D detection zone in the 3D detection zone
- a source driver for driving the 2D illumination source to emit pulses
- a synchronization module for synchronizing the source driver and the driver to allow capture of the images while the 2D detection zone is illuminated.
- a method for tracking and characterizing a plurality of vehicles simultaneously in a traffic control environment comprising: providing a 3D optical emitter; providing a 3D optical receiver with a wide and deep field of view; driving the 3D optical emitter into emitting short light pulses; receiving a reflection/backscatter of the emitted light, thereby acquiring an individual digital full-waveform LIDAR trace for each detection channel of the 3D optical receiver; using the individual digital full-waveform LIDAR trace and the emitted light waveform, detecting a presence of a plurality of vehicles, a position of at least part of each vehicle and a time at which the position is detected; assigning a unique identifier to each vehicle; repeating the steps of driving, receiving, acquiring and detecting, at a predetermined frequency; tracking and recording an updated position of each vehicle and an updated time at which the updated position is detected.
- object is intended to include a moving object and a stationary object.
- object can be a vehicle, an environmental particle, a person, a pedestrian, a passenger, an animal, a gas, a liquid, a particle such as dust, a pavement, a wall, a post, a sidewalk, a ground surface, a tree, etc.
- vehicle is intended to include any movable means of transportation for cargo, humans and animals, not necessarily restricted to ground transportation, including wheeled and unwheeled vehicles, such as, for example, a truck, a bus, a boat, a subway car, a train wagon, an aerial tramway car, a ski lift, a plane, a car, a motorcycle, a tricycle, a bicycle, a SegwayTM, a carriage, a wheelbarrow, a stroller, etc.
- wheeled and unwheeled vehicles such as, for example, a truck, a bus, a boat, a subway car, a train wagon, an aerial tramway car, a ski lift, a plane, a car, a motorcycle, a tricycle, a bicycle, a SegwayTM, a carriage, a wheelbarrow, a stroller, etc.
- the term “environmental particle” is intended to include any particle detectable in the air or on the ground and which can be caused by an environmental, chemical or natural phenomenon or by human intervention. It includes fog, water, rain, liquid, dust, dirt, vapor, snow, smoke, gas, smog, pollution, black ice, hail, etc.
- red light is intended to mean a traffic light (traffic signal, traffic lamp or signal light) which is currently signaling users of a road, at a road intersection, that they do not have the right of way into the intersection and that they should stop before entering the intersection. Another color and/or symbol could be used to signal the same information to the user depending on the jurisdiction.
- green light is intended to mean a traffic light (traffic signal, traffic lamp or signal light) which is currently signaling users of a road, at a road intersection, that they have the right of way into the intersection and that they should enter the intersection if it is safe to do so. Another color and/or symbol could be used to signal the same information to the user depending on the jurisdiction.
- traffic light traffic signal, traffic lamp or signal light
- FIG. 1 is a functional bloc diagram of an example of the multipurpose traffic detection system showing its main components and the way they are interconnected;
- FIG. 2 is an example installation of the traffic detection system on the side of a 3-lane highway
- FIG. 3 shows an example installation of the traffic detection system on a gantry
- FIG. 4 shows the impact on the depth of a detection zone of the height of installation of the system
- FIG. 5 shows an example casing for the multipurpose traffic detector
- FIG. 7 shows a top view of the detection zone in a red light enforcement application
- FIG. 9A is a photograph showing an example snapshot taken by the image sensor with the overlay of the 3D sensor at an intersection for red light enforcement application and FIG. 9B is a graph of data acquired by the detection system showing the range of detection of vehicles on 3 lanes in Cartesian coordinates;
- FIG. 10 is a top view of an example road side installation with the tracking system being installed next to a one-directional three-lane highway and for which the detection zone is apparent and covers, at least partly, each of the lanes, all vehicles traveling in the same direction;
- FIG. 11 is a top view of the example installation of FIG. 10 on which four vehicle detections are visible in some of the 16 separate channels with simultaneous acquisition capability;
- FIG. 12 is a top view of the example installation of FIG. 10 on which a detection is visible between two trigger lines;
- FIG. 13 includes FIGS. 13A, 13B, 13C, 13D, 13E and 13F , in which FIGS. 13A, 13C and 13E are photographs which show a few frames of vehicle tracking when vehicles arrive at an intersection with a red light and FIGS. 13B, 13D , and 13 F show a graph of data acquired by the detection system for each corresponding frame;
- FIG. 14 includes FIGS. 14A, 14B, 14C, 14D, 14E and 14F , in which FIGS. 14A, 14C and 14E are photographs which show a few frames of vehicle tracking when vehicles depart the intersection of FIG. 13 at the green light and FIGS. 14B, 14D, and 14F show a graph of data acquired by the detection system for each corresponding frame;
- FIG. 15 is a flowchart illustrating an example method for tracking several vehicles based on a space-based tracking disjoint
- FIG. 17 is a flowchart illustrating the selection of appropriate measures among the detections
- FIG. 19 is a state diagram illustrating the tracking system used without a traffic light state
- FIG. 20 is a state diagram illustrating the tracking system used with a traffic light state
- FIG. 21 is a flowchart showing example steps performed to compute the vehicle position
- FIG. 22 is a flowchart showing example steps performed for object tracking without a traffic light state
- FIG. 23 is a flowchart showing example steps performed for object tracking with a traffic light state
- FIG. 24 is a flowchart illustrating an example classification process
- FIG. 26 illustrates the direct geometric relationship between height of the vehicle and distance of vehicle detection
- FIG. 28 includes FIGS. 28A, 28B, 28C and 28D which show corresponding side view frames of the vehicle of FIG. 27 ;
- FIG. 29 is a flowchart illustrating an example segmentation algorithm based on a 3D bounding box
- FIG. 30 is a top view of an example scenario used for the analysis of Posterior Cramer-Rao lower bound
- FIG. 31 is a graph showing theoretical performance of the tracking algorithm given by the PCRB.
- FIG. 32 includes FIGS. 32A, 32B, 32C and 32D in which FIG. 32A is a photograph showing an example snapshot taken by the image sensor during the day, FIGS. 32B, 32C and 32D are photographs showing a zoom in on license plates in the snapshot of FIG. 32A ;
- FIG. 33 includes FIGS. 33A, 33B and 33C in which FIG. 33A is a photograph showing an example snapshot taken by the image sensor at night without any light, FIG. 33B is a photograph showing the same scene as FIG. 33A taken by the image sensor at night with an infrared light illumination, FIG. 33C is a photograph showing a zoom in on a license plate extracted from the image of FIG. 33B ;
- FIG. 34 includes FIGS. 34A, 34B, 34C and 34D in which FIG. 34A is a photograph showing another example snapshot taken by the image sensor at night with infrared light, FIG. 34B is a photograph showing a zoom in on a license plate extracted from the image of FIG. 34A , FIG. 34C is a photograph showing an example snapshot taken by the image sensor with a shorter integration time at night with infrared light, FIG. 34D is a photograph showing a zoom in on a license plate extracted from the image of FIG. 34C ; and
- FIG. 35 is a photograph showing an example panoramic snapshot taken by the image sensor using infrared illumination in which two vehicles are present in the detection zone and on which the overlay of the 3D sensor is shown with dashed lines.
- the functionalities of the various components integrated in an example multipurpose traffic detection system 10 can be better understood by referring to the functional block diagram shown in FIG. 1 .
- the 3D Optical Emitter 12 (3DOE) emits short pulses of light, for example of a length less than 50 ns, within a predetermined zone.
- the 3DOE 12 is an IR LED illumination source determining a Field-of-Illumination FOI 3D covering the 3D detection zone FOV 3D .
- the optical source of the 3DOE can also be based on Laser technology.
- the horizontal angles of the FOI 3D and FOV 3D are wide enough to cover at least one lane. For example, a system with a horizontal FOI/FOV of 35° would be able to cover 3 lanes, each lane having a width of 3.5 m, when installed at 15 m from the side of the detection zone.
- FIG. 2 depicts a schematic view of a roadway with 3 lanes being shown.
- the traffic detection system 10 is shown mounted on a pole 27 with an orientation towards traffic direction.
- Pole 27 can be a new dedicated road infrastructure for the sensor installation or an already existing road infrastructure streetlight assembly or other types of infrastructures like gantries or buildings.
- This exemplary roadway comprises three adjacent traffic lanes for vehicles.
- the traffic detection system is intended to detect any type of objects that may be present within the predetermined 3D detection zone.
- the mounting height of the traffic detection system 10 is, for example, between 1 to 10 m with a lateral distance from the nearest traffic lane of, for example, between 1 to 5 m.
- three vehicles travelling in the same direction on the traffic lanes enter in the 3D detection zone.
- the multipurpose traffic detection system is used for detection, localization, classification and measurement of the speed of the vehicles through the zone.
- the system can also be installed over the roadway on a gantry as shown in FIG. 3 .
- the system can also detect vehicles traveling in opposite directions.
- the detection system can be installed at different heights, from the ground up to 10 m.
- FIG. 4 shows the impact of the installation height on the longitudinal length of the detection zone.
- the vertical angles of the FOI 3D and FOV 3D have to be wide enough to detect and track vehicles over several meters, for example over at least 8 m.
- a system installed at a height of 3.5 m with a vertical FOI/FOV of 6° and a detection zone beginning at 15 m from the detector will have a detection zone depth of approximately 13 m.
- part of the light diffusively reflected by the vehicles and objects in the FOI 3D is directed towards the collecting aperture of the 3D Optical Receiver 14 (3DOR) for its 3D optical detection and subsequent conversion into digital waveforms.
- an object should appear within the FOV 3D of the 3DOR, which is defined by its optics as well as by the dimensions of its optically sensitive device.
- the 3DOR is composed of one or more optical lenses, multichannel optical detectors, for example photodiode arrays, an analog frontend and analog-to-digital converter.
- the channels are digitalized in parallel and the system implements a full-waveform signal processing of the signal waveforms generated by the plurality of optical detection channels.
- the multipurpose traffic detection system provides a good accuracy in terms of lateral resolution and is less dependent on the angle of installation than Radar technology.
- the 2D Optical Receiver 16 is at least one image sensor, for example a CMOS or CCD (including front end and AD conversion) which provides images of the portion of the roadway area that encompasses or overlaps at least a section of the FOI 3D of the 3DOE and the FOV 3D of the 3DOR.
- the 2DOR will be used during installation, to transmit video data, and, for some applications, to help identify vehicles using, for example, Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) techniques.
- APR Automatic License Plate Recognition
- An external image sensor or camera can also be used for this function.
- the average size of a character on a license plate is between 50 mm to 80 mm.
- OCR Optical Character Recognition
- the 2D Illumination 18 is an optical source emitting infrared and/or visible light.
- the 2DI can be embedded in the sensor enclosure or can be an external module.
- the optical source of 2DI 18 is at least one LED. LEDs are efficient and the FOI can be optimized with optical collimators and diffusers.
- the pulse width of 2DOE can be in the range of 10 ⁇ s to 10 ms and can be synchronized with the image capture (integration time) of the image sensor(s). For vehicles traveling at high speed, the integration time can be in the range of 500 ⁇ s and less. A vehicle moving at 150 km/h will travel 21 cm in 500 ⁇ s.
- a single set of infrared LEDs can be used for both the 3DOE and 2DOE.
- Very high-short intensity pulses for example ⁇ 50 ns
- longer pulses for example 10 ⁇ s to 10 ms
- the LEDs can have a wavelength between 800 and 1000 ⁇ m, for example.
- Source Driver Electronics (SDE) 20 uses dedicated electronics for driving the 3DOE 12 with current pulses having peak amplitude and duration suitable for effective implementation of the optical ranging principle on which the operation of the multipurpose traffic detection system is based.
- a pulsed voltage trig signal forwarded by the Control and Processing Unit 22 commands the generation of each current pulse by the drive electronics.
- the operating conditions and performance requirements for the multipurpose traffic detection system call for the emission of short optical pulses having a duration in the range of 5 to 50 ns, for example.
- the duty cycle (relative ON time) of the optical emission can be as low as 0.1%.
- any lowering of the peak drive level of the LEDs or Laser can be compensated by mounting additional LED or Laser sources in the 3DOE 12 and appropriately duplicating their drive electronics.
- the SDE 20 can also drive 2D illumination with current pulses having peak amplitude and duration suitable for effective illumination of the scene for the 2DOR 16 .
- a pulsed voltage trig signal forwarded by the Control and Processing Unit 22 commands the generation of each current pulse by the drive electronics.
- the operating conditions and performance requirements for the multipurpose traffic detection system call for the emission of 2D optical pulses having a duration in the range of 10 ⁇ s to 10 ms, for example.
- the SDE 20 can control and receive information from 3DOE and 2D illumination about the intensity of the current pulse, LEDs/Laser temperature, etc.
- the Control and processing unit 22 can include digital logic (for example by a Field-Programmable Gated Array (FPGA)) for pre-processing the 3D raw data and for the synchronization and control, a memory, and a processing unit.
- the processing unit can be a digital signal processing (DSP) unit, a microcontroller or an embarked personal computer (PC) board as will be readily understood.
- DSP digital signal processing
- PC personal computer
- the primary objective of the 3D full-waveform processing is to detect, within a prescribed minimum detection probability, the presence of vehicles in a lane that is mapped to a number of adjacent detection channels. Because of the usual optical reflection characteristics of the vehicle bodies and of various constraints that limit the performances of the modules implemented in a traffic detection system, the optical return signals captured by the 3DOR are optimized by acquisition shifting techniques, accumulation techniques and filtering and correlation technique to enhance the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the useful signal echoes and detect a digital replica of the pulse emitted by the 3DPE.
- SNR signal-to-noise ratio
- the properties (peak amplitude, shape, time/distance location) of the useful features present in the waveforms should remain ideally unchanged during the time period required to capture a complete set of waveforms that will be averaged. This condition may cause issues when attempting to detect vehicles that move rapidly, this situation leading to signal echoes that drift more or less appreciably from waveform to waveform.
- the detrimental impacts of this situation can be alleviated by designing the traffic detection system so that it radiates light pulses at a high repetition rate (e.g., in the tens to hundreds of kHz range). Such high repetition rates will enable the capture of a very large number of waveforms during a time interval sufficiently short to keep the optical echoes associated to a moving vehicle stationary.
- Detection information on each channel can then be upgraded, for example between a few tens to a few hundred times per second. For example, with a multipurpose traffic detection system using a frame rate at 200 Hz, a car at 250 km/h would have moved forward by 35 cm between each frame.
- the Control and processing unit 22 has numerous functions in the operation of the multipurpose traffic detection system, one of these being the calibration of the system. This calibration process can be done by connecting a remote computer to the Control and processing unit 22 and communicating using a Power management and data Interface 24 .
- Power management and data Interface 24 receives information from the external controller (including parameters like a speed limit) and also allows the Control and processing unit 22 to send data.
- the data sent can be related to the detection of each vehicle and can comprise information such as an accurate timestamp of the detection time synchronized with the external controller, a unique identifier (ID number), the lane and position of the vehicle (lateral and longitudinal) for each trigger event, the position of the vehicle in an image, video streaming, identification by ALPR, speed, classification, weather information, etc., to the external controller.
- part of the process and algorithms can be integrated in the external controller which receives the raw data from the Control and processing unit by the Power Management and Interface.
- Ethernet Several types of interfaces can be used to communicate with the external controller: Ethernet, RS-485, wireless link, etc.
- Power over Ethernet may be used for its simplicity of connection including power, data and distance (up to 100 m).
- the data information can also be stored in memory and retrieved later.
- Power management and data Interface 24 can also send electrical trigger signals to synchronize events like the detection of the front or the rear of a vehicle at a specific position to other devices like an external camera, an external illuminator or other interface and external controller.
- the Power Supply Management and Data Interface 24 can also be useful in transmitting images and videos to an external system or network to allow a remote operator to monitor different traffic events (ex.: accident, congestion, etc.).
- Video compression (ex.: MPEG) can be done by a processor to limit the bandwidth required for the video transmission.
- the four optical modules can be rigidly secured to the attachment surface of an actuator assembly (not shown).
- the modules can then pivot in a controlled manner about up to three orthogonal axes to allow a precise alignment of their common line of sight after the multipurpose traffic detection unit has been installed in place and aligned in a coarse manner.
- the fine-tuning of the orientation of the line of sight is, for example, performed remotely by an operator via a computer device connected to the multipurpose traffic detection system, for example through PoE or a wireless data link.
- FIG. 1 also shows a functional bloc labeled Sensors 26 for measuring different parameters.
- the internal temperature in the system enclosure can be monitored with a temperature sensor which can be used to control a heating/cooling device, not shown.
- the current orientation of the system can be monitored using an inclinometer/compass assembly. Such information may be useful for timely detection of the line of sight that may become misaligned.
- the sensor suite may also include an accelerometer for monitoring in real-time the vibration level to which the system is submitted to as well as a global positioning system (GPS) unit for real-time tracking of the location of the system and/or for having access to a real-time clock.
- GPS global positioning system
- FIG. 5 shows an example casing with a window 28 for the multipurpose traffic detection system.
- the casing can house a more or less complete suite of monitoring instruments, each of them forwarding its output data signals to the control and processing unit for further processing or relay.
- lateral sections can be integrated to protect the window from the road dust.
- FIG. 6 shows a top view of an installation of the multipurpose detection system.
- the multichannel 3DOR detects vehicles present within a two-dimensional detection zone, the active nature of the traffic detection system provides an optical ranging capability that enables measurement of the instantaneous distances of the detected vehicles from the system.
- This optical ranging capability is implemented via the emission of light in the form of very brief pulses along with the recordal of the time it takes to the pulses to travel from the system to the vehicle and then to return to the system.
- TOF time-of-flight
- the traffic detection system numerically processes the signal waveform acquired for a certain period of time after the emission of a light pulse.
- the traffic detection system can therefore be categorized as a full-waveform LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) instrument.
- the system analyses the detection and distance measurements on several 3D channels and is able to track several vehicles at the same time in the detection zone. The system can determine the lane position, the distance from the detector and the speed, for each individual vehicle.
- the detection system 10 is installed at a reference line 60 , has a wide FOV 61 , has a large and wide detection and tracking zone 62 covering several lanes and several meters of depth and detects several vehicles on several lanes in a roadway.
- the detection system can be configured with two trigger positions.
- the first trigger 63 is set in the first section of the detection zone and the second trigger 64 is set a few meters away, in this case close to the end of the detection zone.
- a first vehicle 65 was detected when entering the detection zone on lane 1, was tracked, was detected at the position of the first trigger 63 , was continuously tracked and is now being detected at the position of the second trigger 64 .
- Information about its lane position, speed, etc., can be constantly sent or can be sent only when the vehicle reaches pre-established trigger positions.
- a second vehicle 66 was detected when entering the detection zone on lane 2, was tracked, was detected at the position of the first trigger 63 , and is continuously tracked until it reaches the position of the second trigger 64 .
- a third vehicle 67 was detected when entering the detection zone on lane 3, was tracked, is detected at the position of the first trigger 63 , will continue to be tracked and will reach the position of the second trigger 64 .
- the system can capture several snapshots using the 2DOR at different levels of illumination using the 2DOE.
- Information about each vehicle can be sent to the external controller. This is useful for applications like traffic management (for vehicle detection, volume, occupancy, speed measurement and classification), speed enforcement, red light enforcement, etc.
- the system can be permanently or temporarily installed. It can even be a mobile system, for example a system installed on a vehicle.
- detection rates should be high, for example of the order of 95% and more (without occlusion), and false detections should occur only very rarely.
- Images and information about the date and time of the infraction will allow the authorities to transmit a traffic infraction ticket. Identification of the driver and/or owner of the vehicle is generally made by the authorities using the information from the license plate of the vehicle. Since speed information is available, speed infractions can also be detected when the traffic light is green. As will be readily understood, the detection system can also be used for other detection applications such as stop line crossing and railway crossing.
- the detection system is installed on the side of the road at an example distance of 15 to 25 m from the stop bar 70 .
- the detection and tracking zone 71 starts few meters before the stop bar 70 and covers several meters after the bar, allowing a large and deep zone for detecting and tracking any vehicle on several lanes (three lanes in that example), at different speeds (from 0 to more than 100 km/h), at a rate of up to ten vehicles detected per second.
- the detection system can take several images of a red light infraction including, for example, when the vehicle is located at a predetermined trigger distance, for example at first trigger 72 when the back of the vehicle is close to the stop bar 70 and at second trigger 73 when the back of the vehicle is few meters away from the stop bar 70 .
- Optional detection of the lane position is useful when a right turn on red is allowed at the intersection.
- Speed enforcement is another application that requires providing evidence that a speed violation occurred.
- the correlation between the detected speed and the actual vehicle guilty of the infraction needs to be trustworthy.
- Sufficient information should be provided to allow identification of the vehicle owner, using information from the license plate, for example.
- the capability of the detection system to measure the speed of several vehicles at the same time with high accuracy and to make the association between each speed measurement and the specific identified vehicle is useful for traffic enforcement applications. This is made possible by, among others, the multiple FOV, the robustness and accuracy of the sensor and the capability to store several images of a violation.
- the detector can store speed limit data (which can be different for each lane) and determine the occurrence of the infraction.
- the detector can be mounted on a permanent installation or can also be temporary, provided on a movable tripod for example. Detectors can also be installed at the entry and at the exit of a point-to-point enforcement system allowing the measurement of the average speed of a vehicle by determining the amount of time it takes to displace the vehicle between the two points. The position of each vehicle and its classification are also information that the detector can transmit to the external controller. In some countries, lane restriction can be determined for specific vehicles, such as trucks for example.
- the multipurpose traffic detection system can fulfill more than one application at a time.
- the system used for traffic management near an intersection can also be used for red light enforcement at that intersection.
- FIGS. 8A and B show examples images of a roadway captured by the 2DOR during the day. The image is overlaid with the perimeters of a set of 16 contiguous detection zones of the 3DOR.
- a vehicle present in the first lane 32 would be detected by several adjacent channels at a respective detected distance between 17.4 m to 17.6 m (see the numbers at the bottom of the overlay).
- the vehicle is detected in the second lane 34 between 24.0 m to 24.4 m. Note that the overall detection zone is wide enough to cover more than two lanes. In some situations depending on the context of the installation, some objects or even the ground can be detected by the system but can be filtered out and not be considered as an object of interest.
- FIG. 9A shows a photograph of a red light enforcement application installation. Some channels detect echo back signals from the ground (see the numbers at the bottom of the overlay) but the system is able to discriminate them as static objects.
- FIG. 9B is a graph showing a top view of the 3D 16 field of view of a road with 3 lanes. In a Cartesian coordinate system, if the detection system represents the origin, the horizontal direction from left to right is taken as the positive x-axis and represents the width of the 3 lanes in meters, and the vertical direction from bottom to top is taken as the positive y-axis and represents the longitudinal distance from the sensor. To facilitation installation, the installation software will indicate the beginning and the end of the detection zone by showing a detection line as seen in FIG. 9B .
- FIG. 10 shows a top view of an example road facility equipped with a multipurpose traffic detection system 10 .
- the system 10 mounted on an existing traffic infrastructure is used to illuminate a detection zone 42 .
- the mounting height is between 1 and 10 m with a distance from the road between 1 and 5 m.
- the vehicles 46 travel in lanes 43 , 44 and 45 in a direction indicated by arrow A through the detection system illumination zone 42 .
- the detection system 10 is used for detecting information of the rear surface of vehicles 46 coming in the illumination zone 42 .
- the detection system 10 is based on IR LED illumination source with a multiple field-of-view detector.
- each 3D detection 53 gives the distance between an object and the sensor.
- FIG. 12 shows the system in an example configuration with two trigger lines 56 and 57 located at a distance from the sensor between 10 and 50 m, for example.
- the two trigger lines 56 and 57 are configured by the user.
- Blob 55 illustrates a detectable vehicle rear. When the blob reaches the trigger line, the system returns a trigger message.
- FIG. 13 and FIG. 14 show example data for vehicle tracking in the context of traffic light enforcement. Thanks to a projection of the field-of-view of the detection system on the real 2D image, the relationship between the top view ( FIGS. 13B, 13D, 13F ) and the scene ( FIGS. 13A, 13C, 13E ) is made apparent.
- the 3D detections are represented by dots in the top views. In this example, a small diamond in the top views shows the estimated position of the rear of each vehicle based on the 3D detections. In this example, the small diamond represents the middle of the rear of the vehicle.
- the distance of detection is indicated under each detection channel in the scene image. The amplitude of the detection is also indicated below the distance of detection.
- thin lines define the limits of the tracking area and dotted lines define two trigger lines configured by the user.
- a new vehicle is labeled with a unique identifier.
- its estimated position is shown using a small diamond.
- the interactions between vehicle detections are managed by the tracking algorithm allowing distinguishing vehicles located in the detection area.
- step 100 the tracking algorithm reads the available observations.
- step 101 the tracking algorithm removes each detection that is not located on the road.
- step 101 is followed by step 102 where the tracking algorithm recognizes lines by a feature-based approach.
- Step 103 eliminates the points located on lines parallel to the x-axis 50 with the aim of extracting the characteristics relating to the side(s) of vehicles and to keep only the objects having a “vehicle rear signature”.
- FIG. 18 The estimation of a line based on the covariance matrix using polar coordinate 102 is illustrated in FIG. 18 .
- This estimation is based on feature extraction.
- the strength of the feature-based approach lies in its abstraction from data type, origin and amount.
- line segments will be considered as a basic primitive which later serves to identify and then remove the side of vehicles.
- Feature extraction is divided into two sub-problems: (i) segmentation to determine which data points contribute to the line model, and (ii) fitting to give an answer as to how these points contribute.
- ⁇ is the angle between the x axis and the normal of the line, r ⁇ 0 is the perpendicular distance of the line to the origin; (x, y) is the Cartesian coordinates of a point on the line.
- the covariance matrix of line parameters is:
- FIG. 19 shows a state diagram for the 3D real-time detection multi-object tracker.
- the core of the tracker 91 A is based on a Kalman Filter in all weather and lighting conditions.
- the observation model 90 is illustrated in FIG. 21 which presents an example method to compute the vehicle position by weighting each 3D observation according to its height amplitude. This method permits to improve the accuracy of the estimated position with respect to using only the x and y Cartesian positions.
- Step 301 is followed by computing the observation weight depending on the intensity at step 302 .
- the function 300 normalizes the weight ⁇ n according to the amplitude A n of the observation P n :
- ⁇ n A n ⁇ ⁇ A n
- Z k (x obs k ,y obs k ) t is the measurement vector, H the measurement sensitivity matrix, and R k the covariance matrix of W k .
- the state space model 93 A is based on probabilistic framework where the evolution model is supposed to be linear and the observation model is supposed to be Gaussian noise.
- FIG. 20 shows a state diagram for 3D real-time detection multi-object joint tracker.
- the core of 91 B is based on a Kalman Filter which addresses the issue of interacting targets, which cause occlusion issues. When an occlusion is present, 3D data alone can be unreliable, and is not sufficient to detect, at each frame, the object of interest.
- occlusions can be modeled with a joint state space model 93 B.
- the multi-object joint tracker includes a multi-object interaction distance which is implemented by including an additional interaction factor in the vehicle position.
- the state space model 93 B encodes the observations detected in the scene, e.g.
- the validation gate is the ellipsoid of size N z (dimension of vector) defined such as: ⁇ t ⁇ S ⁇ 1 ⁇
- Step 400 is followed by step 401 A/B which makes the matching between a blob and a hypothesis. Then, (i) consider all entries as new blobs; (ii) find the corresponding entries to each blob by considering gating intervals around the predicted position of each hypothesis, (iii) choose the nearest entry of each interval as the corresponding final observation of each blob.
- the tracking algorithm uses a track management module in order to change the number of hypothesis.
- step 403 uses a Kalman framework to estimate the final position of the vehicle.
- l[m] s[m/S]*(X 1 (t)[s] ⁇ X 0 (t)[s]) ⁇ (X 1 (x)[m]) ⁇ X 0 (x)[m])+Seg[m]+TH[m]
- s is the vehicle speed
- Seg is the length of the detected line
- TH is a calibration threshold determined from a large dataset.
- step 500 is followed by step 502 which computes the vehicle height.
- the vehicle height is estimated during the entry into the sensor field of view. As shown in FIG. 26 , for a known configuration of the detection system, there is a direct geometric relationship between the height of a vehicle 601 and the detection distance 600 .
- the accuracy 602 is dependent on the half-size of the vertical FOV angle 603 . Height measurement is validated if the accuracy is lower than a threshold.
- step 502 is followed by step 503 which computes the vehicle width.
- (y l , x) be leftmost pixel and (y r , x) be the rightmost pixel in the vehicle blob for a given x.
- FIGS. 25A, 25B and 25C show a result of vehicle classification based on the classification algorithm.
- the classification result is a heavy vehicle; in FIG. 25B , it is a four-wheeled lightweight vehicle and in FIG. 25C , it is a two-wheeled lightweight vehicle.
- the information from the detection system is flexible and can be adapted to different schemes of classification.
- FIG. 25 illustrates graphically the basic elements of the concept of an object-box approach which is detailed below and in FIG. 27 and FIG. 28 .
- the object-box approach is mainly intended for vehicles because this approach uses the vehicle geometry in a LEDDAR image.
- the vehicles are represented by a 3D rectangular box of detected length, width and height.
- the 3D size of the rectangular box will vary depending on the detections in the FOV.
- FIGS. 27A, 27B, 27C and 27D show top view frames of a vehicle detected by the LEDDAR sensor.
- FIGS. 28A, 28B, 28C and 28D show corresponding side view frames of the vehicle of FIG. 27 .
- FIGS. 27A, 27B, 27C, 27D and FIGS. 28A, 28B, 28C, 28D show the changing 3D size of the rectangle 701 for four example positions of a vehicle 702 in the 3D sensor FOV 703 .
- a vehicle 702 enters the 3D sensor FOV 703 two detections are made on the side of the vehicle (see FIG. 27A ) and one detection is made for the top of the vehicle (see FIG. 28A ).
- H s is the sensor height 704
- dist is the distance of the detected vehicle
- ⁇ is sensor pitch
- FIG. 27B and FIG. 28B represent detections when the vehicle is three-fourths of the way in the detection FOV. Eight side detections are apparent on FIG. 27B and one top detection is apparent on FIG. 28B .
- the dimensions of the 3D rectangle are calculated as follows:
- O l (k) and O h (k) are respectively the current length and height value at time k.
- FIG. 27C and FIG. 28C represent detections when the back of the vehicle begins to enter in the detection FOV. Eight side detections and two rear detections are apparent on FIG. 27C while one detection is apparent on FIG. 28C .
- the points of the vertical segment representing the rear and/or the top of the vehicle are clockwise angle sorted, so L 4 is the point with the smallest angle and L 3 is the segment-point with the largest angle.
- O l (k), O h (k) and O w (k) are respectively the current length, height and width value at time k.
- FIG. 27D and FIG. 28D represent detections when the back of the vehicle is fully in the detection FOV. Six side detections and four rear detections are apparent on FIG. 27D while one detection is apparent on FIG. 28D .
- O lm (k) is the current width at time k and ⁇ is the filtering rate.
- the size of the vehicle can then be determined fully.
- the segmentation algorithm 800 based on a 3D bounding box for selection of the relevant measures is illustrated in FIG. 29 .
- the first three steps are identical to that of FIG. 17 . If step 120 finds horizontal lines, then step 120 is followed by step 121 . As explained above, the points of a segment are clockwise angle sorted with L 2 , the smallest angle and L 1 the largest angle. This segment length is given by L 2 ⁇ L 1 . Otherwise, the next step 123 initializes the 3D bounding box with a default vehicle length.
- Step 121 is followed by step 122 which considers that two segments have a common corner if there is a point of intersection P i between the two segments with
- the vehicle 130 is moving at a speed of 60 m/s along a straight line in lane 3 .
- the PCRB was applied.
- the multipurpose traffic detection system uses a high-resolution image sensor or more than one image sensor with lower resolution.
- the control and processing unit has to process an image stitching by combining multiple images with different FOVs with some overlapping sections in order to produce a high-resolution image.
- the system can determine exact overlaps between images sensors and produce seamless results by controlling and synchronizing the integration time of each image sensor and the illumination timing and analyzing overlap sections.
- Infrared and color image sensors can be used with optical filters.
- a NIR flash is not visible to the human eye and does not blind drivers, so it can be used at any time of the day and night.
- Image sensors can use electronic shutters (global or rolling) or mechanical shutters.
- rolling shutters compensation for the distortions of fast-moving objects (skew effect) can be processed based on the information of the position and the speed of the vehicle.
- Other controls of the image sensor like Gamma and gain control can be used to improve the quality of the image in different contexts of illumination.
- FIG. 33A is a photograph showing an example snapshot taken by the image sensor at night without any light. This image is completely dark.
- FIG. 33B shows the same scene with infrared light. Two vehicles can be seen but the license plates are not readable even when zooming in as seen in FIG. 33C .
- the license plate acts as a retro-reflector and saturates the image sensing.
- FIGS. 34A and 34B use the same lighting with a lower integration time. The vehicle is less clear but the image shows some part of the license plate becoming less saturated.
- FIGS. 34C and 34D decrease a little more the integration time and produce a readable license plate.
- HDR high dynamic range
- the system can use Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR), based on Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, to identify vehicle license plates.
- ALPR Automatic License Plate Recognition
- OCR Optical Character Recognition
- the multipurpose traffic detection system can be used day or night, in good or bad weather condition, and also offers the possibility of providing weather information like the presence of fog or snowing conditions.
- Fog and snow have an impact on the reflection of the radiated light pulses of the protective window.
- the peak amplitude of the first pulse exhibits sizable time fluctuations, by a factor that may reach 2 to 3 when compared to its mean peak amplitude level.
- the width of the first pulse also shows time fluctuations during these adverse weather conditions, but with a reduced factor, for example, by about 10 to 50%.
- the peak amplitude of the first pulse visible in the waveforms generally shows faster time fluctuations while the fluctuations of the pulse width are less intense.
- a long-lasting change in the peak amplitude of the first pulse can be simply due to the presence of dirt or snow deposited on the exterior surface of the protective window.
- FIG. 35 shows an example image taken with infrared illumination with the overlay (dashed lines) representing the perimeter of the 16 contiguous detection zones of the 3DOR.
- Apparent on FIG. 35 are high intensity spots 140 coming from a section of the vehicle having a high retro-reflectivity characteristic.
- Such sections having a high retro-reflectivity characteristic include the license plate, retro-reflectors installed one the car and lighting modules that can include retro-reflectors.
- An object with retro-reflectivity characteristic reflects light back to its source with minimum scattering. The return signal can be as much as 100 times stronger than a signal coming from a surface with Lambertian reflectance. This retro-reflectivity characteristic has the same kind of impact on the 3DOR.
- Each 3D channel detecting a retro-reflector at a certain distance in its FOV will acquire a waveform with high peak amplitude at the distance of the retro-reflector.
- the numbers at the bottom of the overlay represent the distance measured by the multipurpose traffic detection system in each channel which contains a high peak in its waveform. Then, with a good image registration between the 2D image sensor and the 3D sensor, the 2D information (spot with high intensity) can be correlated with the 3D information (high amplitude at a certain distance).
- This link between 2D images and 3D detection ensures a match between the identification data based on reading license plates and measurements of position and velocity from the 3D sensor.
- the license plate identification process can also be used as a second alternative to determine the speed of the vehicle with lower accuracy but useful as a validation or confirmation.
- the progression of the vehicle in the detection zone can be estimated and used to confirm the measured displacement.
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x cos α+y sin α=r
Pblob=Σn=1 Nπn·Pn
pk+1=F·pk+G·Vk, Vk˜N(0,Qk)
Zk=H·pk+Wk, Wk˜N(0,Rk)
θt·S−1·θ≤γ
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OHm=Hs−dist*tan(θ)
Ol(k)=max(L2−L1,Ol(k−1))
Oh(k)=max(OHm,Oh(k−1))
Ol(k)=max(L2−L1,Ol(k−1))
Oh(k)=max(OHm,Oh(k−1))
Ow(k)=max(L4−L3,Ow(k−1))
Olm(k)=α*(L4−L3)+(1−α)*Olm(k−1)
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