Reconstruction of the Motion of Traffic Accident Vehicle in the Vehicle-Mounted Video Based on Direct Linear Transform

Based on the principle of direct linear transformation (DLT) in close-range photogrammetry, a method was proposed for reconstructing the motion states of the host vehicle and other vehicles based on vehicle-mounted videos. To verify the effectiveness and accuracy of the method, validation experiments were designed. Under two typical operating states, steering and straight driving, the motion states of the host vehicle and other vehicles (including trajectory, distance, speed, and acceleration) were reconstructed from the vehicle-mounted video. In the experiments, high-precision inertial navigation was installed on the other vehicle to record real-time motion data of the vehicle. Finally, in order to compare and analyze the reconstructed video results with the vehicle’s actual motion data, the recorded motion data were matched and synchronized to the same time axis as the vehicle-mounted videos through a GPS timing device. The experimental result shows that the reconstructed trajectory results based on this method can generally reflect the vehicle’s actual trajectory, with an average deviation of less than 7.4%; the reconstructed distance results have an average deviation of less than 9.3%; the reconstructed speed results have an average deviation of less than 7.3%; the reconstructed acceleration results can reflect the vehicle’s acceleration or deceleration states. The results of this study provide an effective solution for obtaining important parameters of vehicles in accident reconstruction research, such as the trajectory, speed, distance, and acceleration or deceleration, and it has significant practical value for applications.