Vision-based bicycle/motorcycle classification

✍ Scribed by Stefano Messelodi; Carla Maria Modena; Gianni Cattoni

• Book ID: 103879560
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 936 KB
• Volume: 28
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0167-8655
• DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2007.04.014

✦ Synopsis

We present a feature-based classifier that distinguishes bicycles from motorcycles in real-world traffic scenes. The algorithm extracts some visual features focusing on the wheel regions of the vehicles. It splits the problem into two sub-cases depending on the computed motion direction. The classification is performed by non-linear Support Vector Machines. Tests lead to a successful vehicle classification rate of 96.7% on video sequences taken from different road junctions in an urban environment.