Automatic Traffic Scene Analysis Using Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms - Backpropagation Neural Networks and Support Vector Machines

Automatic traffic scene analysis which has been used for real-time on-road vehicle detection system is essential to many areas of ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems). In order to improve the detection time and accuracy of detection performance, various image processing techniques have been used for real-time vehicle detection. Moreover, Neural Networks have been increasingly and successfully applied to many problems for ITS research topics. Support Vector Machines (SVMs) are currently another efficient approach to vehicle detection because of their remarkable performance. In this research, two different models, Backpropagation which is the best-known neural network model and SVMs have been studied to compare their performance in predictive accuracy, through experiment with real world image data of traffic scenes. Experimental results show that SVMs can provide higher performance in terms of predictive performance than the well-known Backpropagation neural network model.