how traffic management is done through satellite images is been discussed in this ppt and also what are the different tools used is also discussed in the ppt.
7. • INTELLIGENT TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUE BASED ON IMAGE PROCESSING THIS TECHNIQUE INCLUDES
CAMERAS, WHICH ARE USED TO CAPTURE IMAGE OF THE TRAFFIC DENSITY ON ROAD. THESE ARE PLACED ON
A HIGH POLE SO THEY CAN ENVELOP LONG DISTANCE. IMAGE CAPTURED BY CAMERA IS ANALYZED BY A
COMPUTER CHIP IN ORDER TO DETECT VEHICLES ON ROAD.
• THEN COMPUTER WILL CALCULATE THE TIMINGS FOR RED AND GREEN SIGNALS IN ORDER TO CONTROL THE
TRAFFIC DENSITY AND IT SENDS THIS DATA TO TRAFFIC SIGNALS ; ACCORDING TO THIS INFORMATION RED AND
GREEN SIGNAL WILL DYNAMICALLY CHANGING THEIR TIMINGS.
• SOMETIMES THIS TECHNIQUE IS NOT EFFICIENT BECAUSE CAMERA CANNOT COVER LONG DISTANCES DURING
HEAVY TRAFFIC JAM AND DURING HEAVY RAIN IMAGE CAPTURED BY CAMERA IS NOT CLEAR.
8. • TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USING WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES IN THIS TECHNIQUE EMERGENCY
VEHICLE IS EQUIPPED WITH RFTRANSMITTER AND RF-RECEIVER IS MOUNTED ON THE SIGNAL POLE.
• WHEN EMERGENCY VEHICLE IS COMING NEAR TO THE INTERSECTION, IT WILL SEND SIGNAL TO THE RF
RECEIVER AND THIS RECEIVER SENDS TO MAIN CONTROL SYSTEM.
• THEN CONTROL SYSTEM WILL CALCULATE THE APPROXIMATE AMOUNT OF TIME FOR GREEN SIGNAL WHERE
EMERGENCY VEHICLE IS MOVING AND KEEPING RED LIGHT TO REMAINING LANE. THEN VEHICLE WILL PASS
EASILY.
• IRIS (INTELLIGENT ROADWAY INFORMATION SYSTEM) IT IS AN OPEN SOURCE ADVANCED TRAFFIC
MANAGEMENT SYSTEM(ATMS) SOFTWARE PROJECT DEVELOPED BYTHE MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF
TRANSPORTATION.IT IS USED BY TRANSPORTATION AGENCIES TO MONITOR AND MANAGE INTERSTATE AND
HIGHWAY TRAFFIC.
• IN FORMER TECHNIQUES THE SYSTEM DID NOT GIVE ANY TRAFFIC INFORMATION AND WAS USED ONLY TO
MONITOR THE TRAFFIC CONGESTION BUT IRIS WILL PROVIDE REAL-TIME INFORMATION ON HIGHWAY
CONDITIONS TO DETECT TRAFFIC INCIDENTS, MANAGE THE FLOW OF TRAFFIC, AND BROADCAST TRAVELER
INFORMATION .
• IRIS USES THE GPL LICENSE, (ATMS) SOFTWARE TOOL. ATMS HELPS TO REDUCE TRAVELING TIMES,
MAXIMIZE HIGHWAY ABILITY, AND GENERALLY AFFORD SAFER TRAVELLING DIRECTIONS.
10. • MATLAB: IT STANDS FOR “MATRIX LABORATORY”, A FOURTH-GENERATION HIGH-LEVEL PROGRAMMING
LANGUAGE DEVELOPED BY MATHWORKS(U.S) IT HAS WIDE RANGE OF APPLICATIONS INCLUDING SIGNAL
PROCESSING, IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING, CONTROL SYSTEMS, COMPUTER VISION, AI.
• GNU OCTAVE :GNU OCTAVE IS SOFTWARE FEATURING A HIGH-LEVEL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE,
PRIMARILY INTENDED FOR NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS DEVELOPED BY IT IS ONE OF THE MAJOR FREE
ALTERNATIVES TO MATLAB
• OPENCV:IT IS AN OPEN-SOURCE LIBRARY OF PROGRAMMING FUNCTIONS MAINLY AIMED AT REAL-TIME
COMPUTER VISION.THE NAME IS AN ACRONYM FOR “OPEN SOURCE COMPUTER VISION”.
• THE VARIOUS APPLICATIONS OF OPENCV INCLUDE : FACIAL RECOGNITION, GESTURE RECOGNITION, HUMAN-
COMPUTER INTERACTION, MOBILE ROBOTICS, SEGMENTATION, ETC.
• SCILAB:SCILAB IS A HIGH-LEVEL, NUMERICALLY ORIENTED PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE. “SIP” IS A TOOLBOX
FOR PROCESSING IMAGES IN SCILAB. ITS GOALS INCLUDE TASKS SUCH AS FILTERING, BLURRING, EDGE
DETECTION, THRESHOLDING, HISTOGRAM MANIPULATION, SEGMENTATION, MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY,
AND COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING. IT IS STILL IN ITS EARLY PHASES OF DEVELOPMENT.
11. • ACCORD.NET :AFORGE.NET IS AN OPEN SOURCE COMPUTER VISION AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LIBRARY THE
FRAMEWORKS API INCLUDES SUPPORT FOR COMPUTER VISION, IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING, ARTIFICIAL NEURAL
NETWORKS AND MACHINE LEARNING.
• VXL:THE VISION-SOMETHING-LIBRARY, IS A COLLECTION OF OPEN SOURCE C++ LIBRARIES FOR COMPUTER VISION. THE
IDEA IS TO REPLACE X WITH ONE OF MANY LETTERS, I.E. G (VGL) IS A GEOMETRY LIBRARY, N (VNL) IS A NUMERICS
LIBRARY, I (VIL) IS AN IMAGE PROCESSING LIBRARY, ETC.VXL IS USED IN ACADEMIA, INDUSTRY.
• CVIPTOOLS : COMPUTER VISION AND IMAGE PROCESSING TOOLS IS AN OPEN SOURCE IMAGE PROCESSING SOFTWARE.
IT WAS DEVELOPED AT THE COMPUTER VISION AND IMAGE PROCESSING LABORATORY AT SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
AT EDWARDSVILLE.
• BOOFCV :BOOFCV IS AN OPEN SOURCE JAVA LIBRARY FOR REAL-TIME COMPUTER VISION AND ROBOTICS APPLICATIONS.
IT PROVIDES BOTH BASIC AND ADVANCED FEATURES NEEDED FOR CREATING A COMPUTER VISION SYSTEM.