Data Association Based Tracking Traffic Objects

Abstract

For the widely demanding of adaptive multiple moving objects tracking in intelligent transportation field, a new type of traffic video based multi-object tracking method is presented. Background is modeled by difference of Gaussians (DOG) probability kernel and background subtraction is used to detect multiple moving objects. After obtaining the foreground, shadow is eliminated by an edge detection method. A type of particle filtering combined with SIFT method is used for motion tracking. A queue chain method is used to record data association among different objects, which could improve the detection accuracy and reduce the complexity. By actual road tests, the system tracks multi-object with a better performance of real time and mutual occlusion robustness, indicating that it is effective for intelligent transportation system.