VIDEO SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS FOR RAILWAY TRANSPORT

Abstract

The article is devoted to analysis of ways to increase train traffic safety. One of ways to reduce accident rate on railways is timely detection of dangerous objects and notification of all traffic participants, primarily, the driver. Such a notification can be performed with the help of intelligent video surveillance system (IVS). The objective of the article is to study the possibility of using IVS to increase train traffic safety. Method (way to achieve the objective) consists of several stages: development of criteria of compliance of functional possibilities of IVS with tasks to increase train traffic safety, assessment, and calculation of permissible values of fitting criteria. The work suggests a scheme of organization of IVS based on fiber-optic data transmission system (FOTS) and data transmission network, highlights advantages and disadvantages of IVS, formulates requirements for IVS. Advantage of video surveillance is availability of video information about an object to a train driver, which allows to timely prevent an accident. Disadvantage of IVS is high probability of false detection, which can lead to false triggering of a system. To reduce the number of false triggering there are two ways: improvement of algorithms of video analytics in recognition device (RD) and increase of quality of video signals at the input of RD. The work is devoted to reduction of probability of false triggering due to improvement of communication quality. It is noted that an efficient method is the use of a new element base of electronics based on nanostructured materials. These materials allow to improve optoelectronic characteristics of main elements of IVS which are photosensors and photoreceivers.