Vehicle detection and speed estimation with PIR sensors

Abstract

Reliable and accurate traffic sensing is the basis of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), which mitigate traffic mobility and safety issues. To promote vast adoption of ITS technologies, rapid deployment and auto-calibration of traffic sensing systems are critical. Aiming at the development of an advanced traffic sensing system for construction zones, this poster presents our preliminary results for detecting vehicles and estimating traffic speeds by applying signal processing and machine learning techniques using Passive Infrared (PIR) sensor data.