Real Time Vehicle Detection, Tracking and Counting Using Raspberry-Pi

Abstract

Population explosion leads to an unprecedented increase in the number of physical objects or vehicles on road. As a result, the number of road accidents increases due to a very heavy traffic flow. In this paper, traffic flow is monitored by using computer vision paradigm, where images or sequence of images provides a betterment on the road view. In order to detect vehicles, monitor and estimate traffic flow using low cost electronic devices, this research work utilizes camera module of raspberry pi along with Raspberry Pi 3. It also aims to develop a remote access using raspberry-pi to detect, track and count vehicles only when some variations occur in the monitored area. The proposed system captures video stream like vehicles in the monitored area to compute the information and transfer the compressed video stream for providing video based solution that is mainly implemented in Open CV by Python Programming. The proposed method is considered as an economical solution for industries in which cost-effective solutions are developed for traffic management.