Moving Vehicle Detection and Tracking Algorithm in Traffic Video

Aiming at the defects and shortages of traditional moving vehicles detection algorithms, by the analysis and comparison of the existing detection algorithms, we propose an algorithm that combined with frames with symmetric difference and background difference to detect moving vehicle in this paper. First, two different difference images by using frames with symmetric difference and background difference are gained respectively and two binary images can be gained by the appropriate threshold, then the contour of moving vehicles can be extracted by applying OR operation in the two binary images. Finally, the precise moving vehicles will be gained by mathematic morphological methods. In this paper we use Harris operator, Feature Points such as edges and corners are extracted, followed by block-matching to track the Feature Points in successive video frames. Many vehicles can be tracked at the same time automatically since the information is obtained from video sequences.