A video-based traffic violation detection system

Abstract

Traffic violation detection systems are effective tools to help traffic administration to monitor the traffic condition. It can detect traffic violations, such as running red lights, speeding, and vehicle retrogress in real time. In this paper, we propose an improved background-updating algorithm by using wavelet transform on dynamic background, and then track moving vehicles by feature-based tracking method. A complete traffic violation detection system is realized in C++ with OpenCV. Keywords—traffic violation detection, vehicle tracking, red running.