A Traffic Congestion Estimation Approach from Video Using Time-Spatial Imagery

Abstract

This paper presents a novel approach to detect traffic congestion on roads in a natural open world scene observed from TV cameras placed on poles or buildings. In this system, a time-spatial imagery based algorithm is proposed to estimate the road status from the video. The experimental results on real road traffic congestion estimation show that the time-spatial method is robust in complex lighting and traffic environment. The detailed algorithm and the comparison results are given in the paper.